by Richard Flanagan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415539919
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«L'estret camí cap al nord profund» is the historical novel by Richard Flanagan, published by Raig Verd Editorial in paperback (488 pages, in Catalan).
During World War II, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is captured by the Japanese and assigned to the infamous Death Railway, where he must sustain the morale and lives of over a thousand prisoners. Decades later, tormented by guilt and memory, he evokes the love he lost and the men he could not save.
The work was originally published in English as «The Narrow Road to the Deep North» and was awarded the Man Booker Prize 2014.
For readers of historical and war fiction, as well as for book clubs seeking a title with literary and moral depth.
Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes. "Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation" according to The Economist, Flanagan has also worked as a film director and screenwriter.
