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 aby 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.§