![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative features a POV that alternates between the prisoners and the Japanese officers who beat them to death but who suffer greatly themselves too, blunting the edge that severs captor from slave. In this book the prose is fierce, the work of a consummate storyteller, leaving out nothing in its nauseating detail. Imagine this hell and the story of a man trying to survive, to clutch on to his sanity as well as his life. Imagine the descriptions of cruelty, filth, starvation and beatings. Imagine reading a book describing the nightmare world of Australian POWs building a railroad through impossible mountains and sweltering, disease-haunted jungle. Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage Books, 2015) 416pp. Jeremy Simmons reviews the 2014 Booker Prize winner in light of its new edition. ![]()
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