by RichardFlanagan (Author)
This book was the winner of the Man Booker Prize 22014. 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. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truth.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 16 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 1784740322
ISBN 13: 9781784740320
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