<b>Winner of the Man Booker Prize</b><br><br><b><b>&ldquo;</b>Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's <i>The Road </i>has shaken me like this.&rdquo; &mdash;<i>The Washington Post<br></i></b><br><b>From the author of the acclaimed <i>Gould's Book of Fish,</i> a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.</b><br><b> </b><br>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.<br> <br>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.