The Narrow Road to the Deep North (英國版)

＊＊榮獲2014曼布克獎(The Man Booker Prize 2014)

Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier.

‘All life seeks to express itself as freedom, the motor of which is ever hope. Nietzsche saw hope as the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Even so, we can not live without hope, and without hope any novel is untrue to this most fundamental dynamic of the soul, and quickly becomes a lie, a bore and a bad read.’ - Richard Flanagan

Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

“Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not.” -- The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Read... the first chapter of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
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Listen... to Richard Flanagan on the Vintage Podcast, discussing the Burma Death Railway, Basho and the nature of hope.
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Born in Tasmania in 1961, Richard Flanagan is one of Australia’s leading novelists. His novels, Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), The Unknown Terrorist and Wanting have received numerous honours and been published in 26 countries. His father, who died the day Flanagan finished The Narrow Road to the Deep North, was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway.he novel.