The railroad is presented as the Emperor of Japan’s will, and the Japanese guards consider these POWs slave labor. Flanagan’s descriptions of being lost in physical desire, are dead on the mark, beautifully written, while avoiding anything sleazy or pornographic.ĭoctor Evans, the narrator, rapidly becomes the lead officer of a group of Australian POWs, trapped in the jungles of Siam, and expected to build a railroad that will link Siam and Burma. But right before he departs, he has a torrid affair with his own Uncle’s wife, and that affair will haunt him for the rest of his life. The narrator is a medical doctor from a very poor background, who is upwardly mobile socially and professionally, and right before he is drafted into WWII, he becomes engaged to a woman from a “good” family. Winners in the past have come from Ireland, India, England, America, New Zealand Tasmania is an island off Australia, though part of it.įlanagan has written a complicated, very adult, novel with interweaving plots and themes. It was founded by a business man named Man Booker, and the award is open to any writer from any Commonwealth country. Aubyn’s newest novel to great affect) is probably the most important literary award in the world, including the Nobel Prize. The Booker Prize (which was recently spoofed in Edward St. Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan’s new novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North is highly likely to win this year’s Man Booker Prize in literature.
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