The characters from different geography in different timelines in different cultures come together through a single phenomenon called as “War”. Also, the narrative soul-touchingly exposes the graph of life through suffering, starving, fighting, surviving through filth, heavy labor, sickness, zero sanity, zero strength and zero strength for what? For a better world? For a better Empire? For a New Order? For What? For anything better at all? The author leaves us to judge and decide.
Dorrigo Evans the Doctor, his love affair with his uncle’s wife Amy, his loveless life with his wife Ella, his brother Tom and his life-changing seven years with the Australian POW and the Japanese Militants in the deepest jungles of Burma building the railways during the WWII - through these characters and their webbed life the author takes us into a provocative, heart-wrenching narrative of War against Life and Life against War in all its nudity, wildness, filthiness, arrogance and nonsense, peppered with the concepts and principles of Patriotism, Nationalism, Imperialism, Love, Lust, Adultery, Marriage. Well, this book tells the story of the different tenuousness of life through various characters, unfolding the plot through the kaleidoscope of lives. Personally, the last few months had been quite a rough road in my life too, and very often I had crumbled down thinking why I alone have to suffer like this, but then this book did throw a light on the relentless battle that every single life on this planet goes through, emphasising that I am not alone in this wretched journey. When I had crossed the first 50 pages, I felt that this is yet another award winning book, which I will never enjoy, nor understand because I felt it so vague, jumbled, and ambiguous however, by the time I had finished this book reading the remaining 400 pages, I was impacted in a way I hadn’t possibly imagined - as if some unknown element has triggered those sadness, loneliness, inevitability, detachment and many such emotions of mine that had stayed deep down with no one to bother and had pulled it all up into a combined force to experience a Deja Vu of a kind or some sort of an enlightenment about Life.Īnd as I closed this book is, I realized that it is a sad sad sad world that we live in but despite that, we all intend to fight, to survive, to live, to thrive. This book is not a page turner but grips uniquely because of its realistic poignancy.
This book also throws a thin perspective on the kind of battle every single being on this planet goes through. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan.Ī Book about Cruelty of War, Subtleties of Life, Love and much more.
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