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by Richard Flanagan (Author)
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.
Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel's highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker. "Magnificent." --The New York Times Book Review "Nothing short of a masterpiece." --Financial Times August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever. A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.Author Biography
Richard Flanagan's five previous novels--Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting--have received numerous honors and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.
www.richardflanagan.com
Number of Pages: 416
Dimensions: 1 x 8 x 5.1 IN
Publication Date: April 14, 2015
Award: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2015)
