The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The transformative story of war and love as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series

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.
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.

• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 480
• Imprint: Penguin
• Supplier: Penguin Random House Distribution
• Subjects: Code FJMS (scheme 12), Code FRH (scheme 12), Code FA (scheme 12), Code FB (scheme 93), Code FJMS (scheme 93), Code FRH (scheme 93), love story; war and love; Thai jungle prison; slave labour; World War Two; war novel; historical fiction; literary fiction; Burma railway; prisoners of war; POWs; labour camps; war crimes trials; tragic; page-turner; Prime video; Amazon Prime; Basho; Paul Celan; Darky Gardiner; Major Nakamura; Colonel Kota; Jacob Elordi; Thomas Weatherall; Ciaran Hinds; Odessa Young