We’re presenting one of Australia’s greatest and most beloved writers, Richard Flanagan, in conversation with Phillip Adams at the Sydney Opera House next Tuesday. This will be an extraordinary conversation – if you haven’t already, book your tickets now.
Flanagan’s new novel The Narrow Road To The Deep North is inspired by the experiences of his late father, Arch, who was a survivor of the Thai-Burma railway, where 100,000 men died laying 400km of track.
It’s also an incredibly moving love story.
For Richard, this book is one of his most significant works. "I poured into it everything I had learnt from writing my five previous novels. It was as if I had written all those books in order to know how to write this one book." – Good Weekend.
This savagely beautiful novel 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.
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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.
Read an extract from the first two chapters here.
What people are saying:
"Mr Flanagan is a master of sleight of hand, adept at using words to conjure worlds, an indefatigable artist." - The New York Times
“Richard Flanagan is an extraordinary writer and this sixth novel is a masterpiece…”- Australian Women’s Weekly.
“…a magnificent achievement, truly the crown on an already illustrious career.” - Adelaide Advertiser.
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