If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?Ī boring man's journey through the bitter trials of love and war. The start of the book is read especially slow, I assume to add and artistic solemnity but it annoyed me. Flanagan wrote the book but I didn't like his narration. Sam Neil (kiwi I know) or and australian with natural gravitas. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Richard Flanagan?Īnyone else.
There is a moment when the reader learns something the protagonist isn't aware of and it changes the complexion of the whole book. What was one of the most memorable moments of The Narrow Road to the Deep North? If you could sum up The Narrow Road to the Deep North in three words, what would they be? Insight and tenderness in a dark time in history We are left with questions about the nature of love and just what makes people good or bad, both in the most personal of senses and as a group. Changes of time, place and character form a complex pattern, but one that makes sense. Although there are many characters and a number of points of view, Flanagan succeeds in developing a structure which rewards the reader more as the book proceeds.
This is a book of enormous scope and yet highly focused, with personal stories entwined with historical events, and universal human values muddied by culture and human frailty. Indeed, Flanagan shows us this character in full flight, a man of both high restraint and strong passion. But, amazingly, life goes on after the affair and the war, and Dorrigo is for the rest of his life considered a hero by the nation, although he never understands why as he knows himself to be a very flawed character. Before he goes to war he is involved in a love affair of life changing proportions. Dorrigo Evans is an Australian doctor - a surgeon - who finds himself leading a group of 700 prisoners of war working on the Burma Thai Railway during World War Two.
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