The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Hardcover)

from jnwelch

The Narrow Road to the Deep North knocked me over, a compelling page turner from first page to the last. A finalist for the Man Booker Prize, it features Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor who survives a horrific Japanese WWII prisoner of war camp, and ends up beloved by his fellow campmates. Th...

from Donna828

Once this book grabs hold of the reader, it doesn't let go until the end. The beginning jumped around in time as Dorrigo Evans recalled his youth, becoming a surgeon, and going to war. He found himself as the leader of several hundred other prisoners-of-war from Australia in the jungles of Siam w...

from SandyHogarth

After the fall of Singapore in WW2 9,000 Australian POWs were sent to to work on the death railway to fulfill Japan's dream of taking India through Burma. This is a detailed and tough report of part of that, replete with humanity, humour, indifference and extreme brutality. And much more. There w...

from Limelite

Rarely do books so rich and harsh and completely filled with life when they are about death come into a reader's hands. Seldom do novels evoke passion for life so quietly and fully when the protagonist is a self-characterized sham and fake who experiences a single brief period of passion that con...

from lauralkeet

For an instant he thought he grasped the truth of a terrifying world in which one could not escape horror, in which violence was eternal, the great and only verity, greater than the civilisations it created, greater than any god man worshipped, for it was the only true god. It was as if man exist...