Brief aside, why, oh why do some authors find it to be a good idea to ditch quotation marks? Do they cause autism or something, like vaccines? It’s just mean to your readers. Oh, and it’s also avant garde because Flanagan doesn’t believe in quotation marks. It is plot and character driven, but also contains moments of that “beautiful nonsense” that we both love and hate around here. It has descriptions of wartime injuries and third world diseases that made my stomach churn, and also images of surpassing beauty.
It’s a war novel, but also a tragic love story. It has a cast of thousands (not really), but Flanagan develops the major ones quite well. It’s a big novel, but it is also a small one. The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize in 2014.
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