Just watched a really good programme about the man who wrote this book based on his father's experience as a POW on the railway. Made me want to read all his books. Very moving and not predictable.
on BBC iPlayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b063lywk/imagine-summer-2015-5-richard-flanagan-life-after-death Imagine... Richard Flanagan: Life After Death chronicles the life and work of 2014's Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan. The grandson of illiterates, a school drop-out, a river guide, builder's labourer, and a passionate campaigner for conservation, Flanagan journeys with Alan Yentob through his native Tasmania, visiting the places that have inspired his novels, and on to Thailand, to see first-hand the site of the Death Railway - the brutal setting of his award-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Well into it now. A very grim read but written I think to remember the men who suffered. I cannot imagine how the writer as a child and his family coped hearing these stories....his father was definitely someone who did speak about the appalling treatment in the camps.
I read this too.I think the thing that affected me was the way past events continued to affect people all their lives.Have you read Benedicts Brother yet? Apparently this is to be made into a film as well.
I can also recommend the book, The Railway Man, which has been made thje subject of a film, which I have not seen yet. Regards Tom
