The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Dorrigo Evans grows up in rural Tasmania and, before the war, falls into an affair with Amy, his uncle's wife, whom he first encounters in a bookshop in Adelaide. Captured by the Japanese, he is sent with his men to build the Death Railway between Thailand and Burma, where as their surgeon and officer he struggles each day against starvation, cholera and beatings, while Amy comes to believe he has died. Decades later he is famous as a war hero, yet sees himself as a failure, a careless surgeon and an unfaithful husband who has never got over Amy. The novel also follows his Japanese captors, above all Major Nakamura, and what becomes of them after the war.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

War, Love, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), 1940s

First published

2013

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9781741666700 (Vintage Books, Australia)

9780385352857 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)

9780701189051 (Chatto & Windus, United Kingdom)

9780804171472 (Vintage, United States)

9780099593584 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

9781784879860 (Vintage Classics, United Kingdom)

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