{"id":522900,"date":"2026-01-17T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522900\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:56:13","slug":"best-of-the-best-book-club-the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north-by-richard-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/522900\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Best Book Club: &#8220;The Narrow Road to the Deep North&#8221; by Richard Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Best-of-Best-2026.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Best-of-Best-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\"  \/><\/a>The Coronado Public Library\u2019s Best of the Best Book Club meets regularly on the fourth Wednesday of each month to discuss books that have won major awards.<\/p>\n<p>For our January meeting, we will discuss the 2014 Booker Prize Winner\u00a0The Narrow Road to the Deep North\u00a0by Richard Flanagan, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.<\/p>\n<p>Place this title on hold via our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coronado.bibliocommons.com\/v2\/record\/S168C1396736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>online catalog<\/strong><\/a>, or check out the e-book through the CloudLibrary app.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle\u2019s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.<\/p>\n<p>A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Coronado Public Library\u2019s Best of the Best Book Club meets regularly on the fourth Wednesday of each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":522901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-522900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115910789283109057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}