![]() But it is equally remarkable for its depiction of how surviving Australian soldiers and Japanese officers live out their lives after the war. ![]() Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North has been praised as a “kick to the stomach” for its unforgiving depiction of conditions on the Japanese-run Death Railway, known to prisoners as “the Line,” during World War II. As Dorrigo marches through university, through training, through war, through a prisoner-of-war camp, he gathers his memories around him like armor. Dorrigo’s brief affair with Amy trails him for the rest of his life, the memory of her flaring up at unexpected moments. the more alone I feel,” thinks army doctor Dorrigo Evans in the presence of his wife-to-be Ella during a precious six-day furlough, all the while consumed by thoughts of Amy Mulvaney, his uncle’s young wife. ![]() The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan ![]()
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