World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese - Fiction. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs, a man is killed for no reason, and a love story unfolds. About The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches ‘It was with awe That I beheld Fresh leaves, green leaves, Bright in the sun’ In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling.

His novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Goulds Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest. Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. A near fine copy marred only by some highlighting within the. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books - A first edition, first printing by Chato & Windus in 2013. From the winner of Australias National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely acclaimed Goulds Book of Fish, a magisterial, Rashomon-like novel of love. Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho's travel journal, The Narrow Road To The Deep North is about the impossibility of love. The title of Richard Flanagan’s sixth novel comes from a 17th-century Japanese classic, a little book by the poet Basho that mixes a prose travel narrative with haiku in its account of a long. What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you thought dead for a quarter of a century, walking towards you? Richard Flanagan's story, of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle's wife, journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting of lovers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

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