The Narrow Road to the Deep North

A savagely beautiful novel 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

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.

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Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon, is haunted by a forbidden love as he struggles to keep his men alive in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

Before captivity, Dorrigo's affair with Amy Mulvaney reshaped his life. Now, amidst the violence of the Second World War, as Dorrigo struggles to save the men under his commend from starvation, cholera and beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.

A landmark work of historical fiction, The Narrow Road to the Deep North explores the power of love and the enduring cost of war.