- Format: Paperback- Number of Pages: 397 pages
- Dimensions: 107 x 177 x 27mm - 204g
- Publication date: 29 May 2015
- Publisher: Random House LCC US
- Imprint: VINTAGE
- Language: English
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.`