Thursday, March 02, 2023

The Narrow Road to the Deep North



I am doing this post and realize I read the WRONG book! LOL! It has the same title as the one that Mustich says you should read. 

It was a very good book, and the title comes from the book that is referred to in this book.

This one is about an Australian in a POW camp. It is exquisitely written but has some parts that made me physically ill! 

I am still laughing that I didn't read the one on the list! 

Here is the summary by Amazon:

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.

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.

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

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