In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrig
o Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earl
ier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera,
from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.
Haile
d as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story
of one man's reckoning with the truth.
