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.
Winner of 2014 Man Booker Prize.
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Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian novelist from Tasmania.
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并不是因为她没自己的想法,而是因为她的天性使她想要按他人的意愿而活着。没了爱,世界是什么?只有东西、物体、光亮、黑暗。
或许这也是一种悲悼的形式,她想。没有喜乐,没有惊叹,没有笑声,没有气力,没有光,没有未来。希望和梦想是来自死火的冷灰。没有对话,没有争执。实际上,有什么可说的?它是死亡。
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