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He is at once both a good man and a bad man, and in Flanagan’s deft hands becomes one of contemporary literature’s most memorable characters.Īs a young surgeon and officer, waiting in Adelaide to be called up to WWII, he has a chance meeting – in a dusty bookshop – with an alluring girl. Winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize in 2014, the Tasmanian writer’s novel is epic in scale, with a beauty of language describing an atrocity of actions that breaks the reader’s heart on almost every page.ĭorrigo Evans is the story’s main protagonist. I can’t remember feeling quite so emotionally drained as I did late last night, after reading the final few words of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North.