POW Novel from Australian Novelist Won Bookers Award - 2015
This year's Man Booker Prize has gone to Richard Flanagan for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Richard was born in Tasmania and he is the third Australian to win this coveted literary award which entails $ 80,000. the novel is about an Australian surgeon who is held by Japanese in a POW camp and forced to work on the trans Thailand Burma Railway.
53 years old Flanagan is third Australian Author to win Booker following Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey. The Narrow Road to the Deep North title is based on 17th century Japanese Haiku by Basho. It is his sixth novel and partly based on a real-life character, the Australian surgeon Edward “Weary” Dunlop (1907–1993), Evans is the first of his family to get an education. He becomes a doctor and is successful with women. Life, it seems, is easy for him. Fate intervenes. He meets Ella, a girl intent on marriage. She proves a remarkable creation. Domesticity is balanced with some extraordinarily vivid descriptions of war and the suffering that grinds down the jaunty Aussie troops whose good-natured behavior bewilders the Japanese. Evans witnesses living hell and relentless death, yet is destined to again experience chance at its most malicious. Flanagan’s father, Archie, who died at 98 on the day the novel was finished, had been a prisoner of war labouring in horrific conditions during 1942 and 1943 on the notorious Death Railway, a 415km stretch between Burma and Thailand.
Richard's publisher did not ask him what the story was and trusted him to write some thing that would not shame the memory of people who died. So Richard feel that he realised after his father's death that what an extraordinary it was.
The narrative of this years' Bookers award winning novel toggles back and forth between the POW camp where the surgeon Dorrigo Evans struggles to survive. The narrative also shows a love affairs of Evan with his young uncle's wife.
53 years old Flanagan is third Australian Author to win Booker following Thomas Keneally and Peter Carey. The Narrow Road to the Deep North title is based on 17th century Japanese Haiku by Basho. It is his sixth novel and partly based on a real-life character, the Australian surgeon Edward “Weary” Dunlop (1907–1993), Evans is the first of his family to get an education. He becomes a doctor and is successful with women. Life, it seems, is easy for him. Fate intervenes. He meets Ella, a girl intent on marriage. She proves a remarkable creation. Domesticity is balanced with some extraordinarily vivid descriptions of war and the suffering that grinds down the jaunty Aussie troops whose good-natured behavior bewilders the Japanese. Evans witnesses living hell and relentless death, yet is destined to again experience chance at its most malicious. Flanagan’s father, Archie, who died at 98 on the day the novel was finished, had been a prisoner of war labouring in horrific conditions during 1942 and 1943 on the notorious Death Railway, a 415km stretch between Burma and Thailand.
Flanagan’s novel is dedicated to
him as is, no doubt, last night’s win.
Richard's publisher did not ask him what the story was and trusted him to write some thing that would not shame the memory of people who died. So Richard feel that he realised after his father's death that what an extraordinary it was.
The narrative of this years' Bookers award winning novel toggles back and forth between the POW camp where the surgeon Dorrigo Evans struggles to survive. The narrative also shows a love affairs of Evan with his young uncle's wife.
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