![]() ![]() We carried in consequence many incommunicable things." Named after a classic work of Japanese literature, the book is dedicated to Flanagan's father - referred to by his prisoner number, 335 - who died at the age of 98 shortly after his son finished the manuscript.įlanagan said that he and his five siblings grew up "children of the Death Railway. ![]() LONDON - Australian writer Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize on Tuesday with a visceral book about wartime brutality and its aftermath - a novel the head of the judging team said was as powerful as a kick in the stomach.įlanagan drew on his father's experiences as a World War II prisoner of the Japanese for "The Narrow Road to the Deep North," which centres on the Burma Death Railway, built with forced labour at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. ![]()
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