Winner ofthe Man Booker Prize Nothing since Cormac McCarthy s The Road has shaken me like this‎.‎ The Washington Post From the author of the acclaimed Gould s Book of Fish‎,‎ a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present‎.‎ August‎,‎ 1943‎:‎ Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle s 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.‎ 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.‎`