NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH, THE

***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***

Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not.

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.

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, propsers, only to discover all that he has lost.

Flanagan nous parle ici de solitude et nous décrit l’indescriptible : la détresse face à l’horreur, et les liens forts qui peuvent se créer dans ces moments de désespoir. Il nous parle d’amour aussi, et de la complexité des relations humaines, toujours grâce à une écriture parfaitement maitrisée. Un roman très riche à ne surtout pas rater !