The Narrow Road to the Deep North review: a new Australian classic

Snowtown director Justin Kurzel has wrought sound and fury from Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winning novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Image: Prime Video.

‘Why at the beginning of things is there always light?’ So opens Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan’s elegiac, Booker Prize-winning 2013 novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Penned by regular writing partner Shaun Grant, Prime Video series The Narrow Road to the Deep North harnesses these electromagnetic waves, condensing Flanagan’s weighty tome into an equally incandescent triumph.

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Stephen A Russell is a Melbourne-based arts writer. His writing regularly appears in Fairfax publications, SBS online, Flicks, Time Out, The Saturday Paper, The Big Issue and Metro magazine. You can hear him on Joy FM.