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The prisoners work day and night with the most primitive tools in order to try and get the railroad built
Flanagan brought me to my mental knees with the humanity and love he had for the men in the story
It is compelling in its other sections which do not deal with the pow camp as well
Parts iiv of this book are extraordinarily well written with the methodical employment of the streamofconsciousness technique t... Read More
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Dorrigo is an interesting and complex character
Flanagan is a writer who i have just become familiar with
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- This product had a total of 4,041 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 2 2022.
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Interesting story of a lifetime of survival in a hostile wartime pow camp only to be puzzled by an after wartime life of allowing events to unfold with little attempt to control them
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One critic called it australia’s “war and peace”—no exaggeration
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A big thankyou to author richard flanagan for this work
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Difficult to read the descriptions of torture although the details certainly added to a clear image of the human condition during times of war
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All captured in the small crimson flower by the road
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Not always a pleasant story but gorgeously told and crafted by a master writer
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This author is an amazing talent and the novel is one that truly shouldnt be missed
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This is not an easy book to read
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