'Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation. 'Elegantly wrought, measured and without an ounce of melodrama, Flanagan's novel is nothing short of a masterpiece' ( Financial Times)

To say Flanagan creates a rich tapestry is to overly praise tapestries' (Thomas Keneally Guardian) A grand examination of what it is to be a good man and a bad man in the one flesh, and, above all, of how it is to live after survival. ' Devastatingly beautiful' ( Sunday Times) 'A novel of extraordinary power, deftly told and hugely affecting. Grayling, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2014) ' Some years, very good books win the Man Booker Prize but this year a masterpiece has won it' ( A.C. This is a story 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. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. 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. ***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014** *įorever 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 north