The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganIn the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncles young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagans epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one mans reckoning with the truth.

biblical stories

she doesn't think it's love at first sight

kisses on the back of the neck

its children's future secure

he organizes his account around portraits of the remarkable men and women who accompanied him through remote parts of the Near East and Central Asia

Democracy has been allowed to bloom in Sikkim

Annie Ernaux’s father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate

but for his lack of emotion - a reaction that condemns him for being an outsider

Almost a decade later

Meditational practices constitute the very core of the Buddhist approach to life

Alec Ross travelled nearly a million miles to forty-one countries

a boy and a girl barely older than his son