Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

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

Beschreibung

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.

Rezension

" Some years, very good books win the Man Booker Prize but this year a masterpiece has won it " Alex Preston A. C. Grayling, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2014

Klappentext

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. Struggling to save his men from starvation, cholera and beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, this unforgettable novel tells the story of one man's reckoning with the truth.