![]() ![]() But, soon he is sent overseas to join the Allied efforts to push back the Axis forces rising to the rank of colonel in the Royal Australian Army, and in 1943 captured by the Japanese in Java. Dorrigo Evans, a Tasmanian doctor, finds love in the arms of Amy, his uncle's young wife, whom he had met two years earlier. For some readers, the book which might evoke the flavor of another outstanding Booker winner "English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje, weaves an elaborate story of love, hardship, and bravery during Second World War in South East Asia. The award citation on the Booker website acclaims it as "a love story unfolding over half a century between a doctor and his uncle's wife", but it is more than that. The book under review, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" by Richard Flanagan, received the Man Booker Prize in 2014. ![]()
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