Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post From the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the ...
This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
... The Narrow Road to the Deep North is Bashō's study in eternity, and in so far as he has succeeded in this attempt, it is also a monument he has set up against the flow of time. It seems to me that there are two things remarkable about The ...
... TheNarrowRoadtotheDeepNorth by Matsuo Bashō. Translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa (Penguin Classics, 1967) With thanks to the Australia Council for a grant enabling Libby and Sadami to travel to Japan to write and illustrate this book, 2019. IP ...
... The Narrow Road to the Deep North is Dorrigo Evans, an Australian, there are other significant characters, namely Jackie Mororski, Gyppo Nolan, Squizzy Taylor, Darky Gardiner, and Rooster MacNiece, among others who are also Australian ...
... The Narrow Road to the Deep North, referenced within the text and referring to the great poem of journey and enlightenment. Second is Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, a novel that tells a very similar story of a doctor who was once a ...
The author retraces the journey in 1689 of Matsuo Basho, described in his Oku no hosomichi = The narrow road to the deep north.
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The novel tells the story of Alwyn Dorrigo Evans, an Australian man who struggles with war, adultery, and guilt during the World War II era.Born into a working class family in Tasmania, Australia, Dorrigo strives to be more than his class.
