Richard Flanagan's five previous novels—Death of a River Guide,
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown
Terrorist, and Wanting—have received numerous honors and are
published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize
for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.
www.richardflanagan.com
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“Some years, very good books win the Man Booker Prize, but this
year a masterpiece has won it.” —A.C. Grayling, Chair of
Judges, Man Booker Prize 2014
“Richard Flanagan has written a sort of Australian War and
Peace.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR
“A symphony of tenderness and love, a moving and powerful story
that captures the weight and breadth of a life . . . A
masterpiece.” —The Guardian
“I suspect that on rereading, this magnificent novel will seem even
more intricate, more carefully and beautifully
constructed.” —New York Times Book Review
“Captivating . . . This is a classic work of war fiction from a
world-class writer . . . Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
has shaken me like this.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post
“Elegantly wrought, measured, and without an ounce of melodrama,
Flanagan’s novel is nothing short of a masterpiece.” —Financial
Times
“A moving and necessary work of devastating humanity and lasting
significance.” —Seattle Times
“A novel of extraordinary power, deftly told and hugely
affecting. A classic in the making.” —The Observer
“Nothing could have prepared us for this immense achievement . . .
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is beyond comparison.” —The
Australian
“A devastatingly beautiful novel.” —The Sunday Times (London)
“The book Richard Flanagan was born to write.” —The
Economist
“It is the story of Dorrigo, as one man among many POWs in the
Asian jungle, that is the beating heart of this book: an
excruciating, terrifying, life-altering story that is an indelible
fictional testament to the prisoners there.” —Michiko Kakutani, New
York Times
“Exhilarating . . . Life affirming.” —Sydney Morning Herald
“A supple meditation on memory, trauma, and empathy that is also a
sublime war novel . . . Pellucid, epic, and sincerely touching.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Homeric . . . Flanagan’s feel for language, history’s persistent
undercurrent, and subtle detail sets his fiction apart. There isn’t
a false note in this book.” —Irish Times
“The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a big, magnificent novel of
passion and horror and tragic irony. Its scope, its themes and its
people all seem to grow richer and deeper in significance with
the progress of the story, as it moves to its extraordinary
resolution. It’s by far the best new novel I’ve read in ages.”
—Patrick McGrath, author of Constance
“I loved this book. Not just a great novel but an important book in
its ability to look at terrible things and create something
beautiful. Everyone should read it.” —Evie Wyld, author of All
the Birds, Singing
“The luminous imagination of Richard Flanagan is among the most
precious of Australian literary treasures.” —Newcastle Herald
“In an already sparkling career, this might be his biggest, best,
most moving work yet.” —Sunday Age (Melbourne)
“An unforgettable story of men at war . . . Flanagan’s prose is
richly innovative and captures perfectly the Australian demotic of
tough blokes, with their love of nicknames and excellent swearing.
He evokes Evans’s affair with Amy, and his subsequent soulless
wanderings, with an intensity and beauty that is as poetic as the
classical Japanese literature that peppers this novel.” —The Times
(London)
“Extraordinarily beautiful, intelligent, and sharply insightful . .
. Flanagan handles the horrifyingly grim details of the wartime
conditions with lapidary precision and is equally good on the
romance of the youthful indiscretion that haunts Evans.”
—Booklist
“Virtuosic . . . Flanagan’s book is as harrowing and brutal as it
is beautiful and moving . . . This deeply affecting, elegiac novel
will stay with readers long after it’s over.” —Shelf Awareness
“Devastating . . . Flanagan’s father died the day this book was
finished. But he would, no doubt, have been as proud of it as his
son was of him.” —The Independent (UK)
“Despite the novel’s epic sprawl it retains the delicate vignettes
that characterise Flanagan’s work, those beautiful brush strokes of
poignancy and veracity that remain in the reader’s mind long
afterwards.” —West Australian News
“Mesmerising . . . A profound meditation on life and time, memory
and forgetting . . . A magnificent achievement, truly the crown on
an already illustrious career.” —Adelaide Advertiser
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