📗 Libro en inglés THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH (MAN BOOKER PRICE 2014)
PENGUIN PRESS, USA - 9781101911679
Sinopsis de THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH (MAN BOOKER PRICE 2014)
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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.
This savagely beautiful novel is a story 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.
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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.
This savagely beautiful novel is a story 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin Press, Usa
ISBN: 9781101911679
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 06/03/2015
Año de edición: 2015
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan nació en 1961 en Tasmania. Su primera novela, Muerte de un guía (DeBolsillo, 2003), recibió en 1996 el National Fiction Award. Su segunda novela, The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997), fue llevada por él mismo a la gran pantalla y nominada para el Oso de Oro a la mejor película en la Berlinale de 1998. El libro de los peces de William Gould es su tercera novela y obtuvo el Commonwealth Writers Prize en 2002. También es autor de The Unknown Terrorist (2007) y Wanting (2009). En 2014 recibió el premio Man Booker por su última obra, El estrecho camino al norte profundo (Literatura Random House, 2016), una historia de amor y guerra que ha sido publicada en 39 países.
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