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0701189053 
The narrow road to the deep north, Richard Flanagan
Publication year: 2014
Language: English
Classification: GEN
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 9780701189051 0701189053
Notes:
Originally published: Australia: Knopf, 2013
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 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. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man
Audience: Teen readers
Additional information: 448 pages
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London, Chatto & Windus, 2014
16.99
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An amazing tale of heroism, very ordinary life, huge life changing events, emotions, dreams. It's sparse and, despite the enormity of its scope and breadth, it conveys accurately a
24/11/18
Bedford
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