"A well-deserved Man Booker Prize winner. The railway that runs in Japan was built by hand by the prisoners of war. It is a combination of the horrors of war and the beauty of a love story. The poetry and prose is done perfectly to capture the emotions within the story. A beautiful choice of words throughout the book.
This book was the Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014. 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.
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