The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
FLANAGAN, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full green-grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published Sydney: Knopf Australia, 2013.
Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) was born in Longford, Tasmania, the son of Archie Flanagan, who as a young man had been a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Death Railway — the Burma-Siam Railway constructed by Allied prisoners of war and Asian labourers under Japanese command, in conditions of deliberate brutality, between 1942 and 1943, at a cost of some hundred thousand lives. Archie Flanagan survived. His son grew up knowing what survival had cost, and what it meant. The Narrow Road to the Deep North took Richard Flanagan twelve years to write. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2014.
The novel takes its title from Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi — the seventeenth-century poet's account of a journey through northern Japan, a work of haiku and prose concerned with impermanence, the natural world, and the relationship between the traveller and what he passes through. Flanagan's use of the title is not decorative. The novel is structured around the same concerns: impermanence, the way that experience passes through a person and leaves a trace that is simultaneously indelible and beyond articulation, and the gap between what a man does and what he is.
At its centre is Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon who in August 1943 is commanding a group of prisoners building a section of the Railway in the jungle on the Thai-Burma border. What Evans does there — his daily attempts to keep men alive against the combined forces of starvation, disease, and deliberate cruelty — forms the heart of the novel. Around it, moving backwards and forwards in time, is the story of his life before and after: his youth in Tasmania, his love affair with Amy, the wife of his uncle, and the aftermath of the war, the long decades in which Evans becomes celebrated and successful and privately hollowed out. The novel asks what it means to survive, and whether survival is the same as living.
The Man Booker Prize chair of judges A. C. Grayling described it as a masterpiece. Edmund White called it distinguished by its "big heart and beautiful language." The Washington Post wrote that "nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." It has since been adapted as a television series by Justin Kurzel for Prime Video, starring Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds, bringing the novel's audience to a new generation of readers.
Near fine. Some spotting along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
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FLANAGAN, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full green-grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published Sydney: Knopf Australia, 2013.
Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) was born in Longford, Tasmania, the son of Archie Flanagan, who as a young man had been a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Death Railway — the Burma-Siam Railway constructed by Allied prisoners of war and Asian labourers under Japanese command, in conditions of deliberate brutality, between 1942 and 1943, at a cost of some hundred thousand lives. Archie Flanagan survived. His son grew up knowing what survival had cost, and what it meant. The Narrow Road to the Deep North took Richard Flanagan twelve years to write. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2014.
The novel takes its title from Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi — the seventeenth-century poet's account of a journey through northern Japan, a work of haiku and prose concerned with impermanence, the natural world, and the relationship between the traveller and what he passes through. Flanagan's use of the title is not decorative. The novel is structured around the same concerns: impermanence, the way that experience passes through a person and leaves a trace that is simultaneously indelible and beyond articulation, and the gap between what a man does and what he is.
At its centre is Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon who in August 1943 is commanding a group of prisoners building a section of the Railway in the jungle on the Thai-Burma border. What Evans does there — his daily attempts to keep men alive against the combined forces of starvation, disease, and deliberate cruelty — forms the heart of the novel. Around it, moving backwards and forwards in time, is the story of his life before and after: his youth in Tasmania, his love affair with Amy, the wife of his uncle, and the aftermath of the war, the long decades in which Evans becomes celebrated and successful and privately hollowed out. The novel asks what it means to survive, and whether survival is the same as living.
The Man Booker Prize chair of judges A. C. Grayling described it as a masterpiece. Edmund White called it distinguished by its "big heart and beautiful language." The Washington Post wrote that "nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." It has since been adapted as a television series by Justin Kurzel for Prime Video, starring Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds, bringing the novel's audience to a new generation of readers.
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FLANAGAN, Richard. The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full green-grey leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published Sydney: Knopf Australia, 2013.
Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) was born in Longford, Tasmania, the son of Archie Flanagan, who as a young man had been a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Death Railway — the Burma-Siam Railway constructed by Allied prisoners of war and Asian labourers under Japanese command, in conditions of deliberate brutality, between 1942 and 1943, at a cost of some hundred thousand lives. Archie Flanagan survived. His son grew up knowing what survival had cost, and what it meant. The Narrow Road to the Deep North took Richard Flanagan twelve years to write. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2014.
The novel takes its title from Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi — the seventeenth-century poet's account of a journey through northern Japan, a work of haiku and prose concerned with impermanence, the natural world, and the relationship between the traveller and what he passes through. Flanagan's use of the title is not decorative. The novel is structured around the same concerns: impermanence, the way that experience passes through a person and leaves a trace that is simultaneously indelible and beyond articulation, and the gap between what a man does and what he is.
At its centre is Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon who in August 1943 is commanding a group of prisoners building a section of the Railway in the jungle on the Thai-Burma border. What Evans does there — his daily attempts to keep men alive against the combined forces of starvation, disease, and deliberate cruelty — forms the heart of the novel. Around it, moving backwards and forwards in time, is the story of his life before and after: his youth in Tasmania, his love affair with Amy, the wife of his uncle, and the aftermath of the war, the long decades in which Evans becomes celebrated and successful and privately hollowed out. The novel asks what it means to survive, and whether survival is the same as living.
The Man Booker Prize chair of judges A. C. Grayling described it as a masterpiece. Edmund White called it distinguished by its "big heart and beautiful language." The Washington Post wrote that "nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." It has since been adapted as a television series by Justin Kurzel for Prime Video, starring Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds, bringing the novel's audience to a new generation of readers.
Near fine. Some spotting along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine throughout.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000508
