The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthA masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road to the Deep North is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career. Michael Williams, The Guardian A novel of the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life, and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years