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The narrow road to the deep north a novel

"A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--Provided by publisher.

Main Author:	Flanagan, Richard, 1961- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Knopf, 2014.
Subjects:	Prisoners of war > Fiction. Burma > Fiction. Historical fiction > Burma. War stories > Burma.
Online Access:	Go to Downloadable eBook Here.

Summary:	"A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:	334 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9780385352857 (hardback) 0385352859 (hardback)
Author Notes:	Richard Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961. He received a Master of Letters degree from Oxford University. His first novel, Death of a River Guide, won Australia's National Fiction Award. His works include The Sound of One Hand Clapping, The Unknown Terrorist, and four history books. He has received numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Gould's Book of Fish, the 2011 Tasmania Book Prize for Wanting, and the 2014 Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He directed a feature film version of The Sound of One Hand Clapping. He was also shortlisted for the UK Indie Booksellers Award with The Narrow Road to the Deep North. This same title was won the Margaret Scott Prize for best book by a Tasmanian writer 2015. In 2018, The Narrow Road to the Deep North will be made into an international television series. The University of Melbourne has appointed him as the Boisbouvier Founding Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, a new professorship to 'advance the teaching, understanding and public appreciation of Australian literature'. (Bowker Author Biography)

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