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Richard Flanagan

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<b>Winner of the Man Booker Prize</b><br><br><b><b>“</b>Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s <i>The Road </i>has shaken me like this.” —<i>The Washington Post<br></i></b><br>A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.<br><br>August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.