![The Narrow Road to the Deep North [Audiobook] - US $4.95 - Audible Daily Deal](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/34/181434.jpg?h=29ee944d)
Last years Booker Prize winning novel by Australian Richard Flanagan
normally US$24.47 or 1 Audible credit
If you obtained any of the recent Audible $10 credit coupons. might be an opportunity to see what all the fuss was about, at a reasonable price!
The daily deal by my calculation should remain available until about 4pm AEDT
Summary:
From the winner of Australia's National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely acclaimed Gould'sBook of Fish, comes a magisterial, Rashomon-like novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand - Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings - until he receives a letter that will change him forever.
Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death, love, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age and prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
Stunning book that I both listened to and read. I was disappointed at the audio quality of the Audible download (opted for enhanced). I could still hear the compression artefacts that distracted me from the story (and I'm no audio purist). Worth a listen anyway. Audible 6/10, author 9/10 :-)