TY - BOOK AU - Flanagan, Richard TI - The narrow road to the deep north: A novel SN - 9780701189051 U1 - 823.914 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Chatto & Windus KW - Prisoners of war-Burma-World War--(1939-1945) N1 - This title is the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014 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 uncles 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 Flanagans epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one mans reckoning with the truth ER -