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***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 uncles 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.
This is a story 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.
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Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novelsDeath of a River Guide,The Sound of One Hand Clapping,Goulds Book of Fish,The Unknown Terrorist,WantingandThe Narrow Road to the Deep Northhave received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize forThe Narrow Road to the Deep Northin 2014.
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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
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