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Description The exquisite haiku of the Japanese Edo-period poet Basho might seem an unusual touchstone in a novel about savagery and survival on the Burma death railway, which was constructed by prisoners-of-war and Asian slave labour in 1943. Yet Basho’s crystalline brevity gives Richard Flanagan’s novel not only its title but also its grace and unfathomability. Flanagan, a Tasmanian, wrote the book in tribute to his late father, who survived the horrors of “The Line”. Thousands more did not. Beaten and starving, riddled with cholera, ulcers and beriberi, Allied POWs and local workers alike perished in the dense jungle between Thailand and Burma. In Flanagan’s unflinching telling, an Australian military surgeon, Dorrigo Evans, is the senior officer whose division is enduring this hell on Earth. He will later be fêted for his heroism in saving lives through medical know-how and, as a colonel, seeking fair treatment from the Japanese officer in charge, Major Nakamura, himself addicted to methamphetamine to ease recurring malaria.  Richard Flanagan, who yesterday became the third Australian to win the Booker Prize, for his novel “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” was born in Tasmania. More than mere biographical detail, this remote island and its troubled, often violent history is one of his obsessions. In a piece for this magazine in 2013, Flanagan described Tasmania, where he still lives, as an “island Wunderkammer, crammed full of the exotic and the strange, the beautiful and the cruel, conducive not to notions of progress but to a sense of unreality.” Related Torrents
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