A love story unfolds over half a century, as Richard Flanagan’s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man’s reckoning with the truth.

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the infamous Thailand-Burma Death Railway during World War Two, 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.

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The Man Booker Prize 2014
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Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan

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Richard Flanagan won the 2014 Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
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