TY - BOOK AU - Flanagan,Richard TI - The narrow road to the deep north SN - 9780701189051 PY - 2014/// PB - Chatto & Windus KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese KW - Fiction N2 - 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. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man ER -