Flanagan, Richard, 1961-2025Man Booker Prize for Fiction ; 2014Prime Minister's Literary Award ; 2014
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to sa...