by RichardFlanagan (Author)
This book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, propsers, only to discover all that he has lost.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: 1
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 26 Mar 2015
ISBN 10: 0099593580
ISBN 13: 9780099593584
Book Overview: A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost
Prizes: Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014. Shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2015 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014. Long-listed for Folio Prize 2015.