The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan I've been negligent towards fiction lately, but I wanted to change that because it's always been my first

The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan I've been negligent towards fiction lately, but I wanted to change that because it's always been my first love. So to do that, I started reading Flanagan's novel. I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's the Man Booker Prize winner for 2014, which is more or less the British equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize. I never thought I'd have any books that could crack into my top 3 or 5 for a while, but this one has done it. The basis of the book is Australian POWs working on the Death Railway during WWII. The book isn't exclusively told in this setting, but much of the book stems from it.