Description
This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. 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. *WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*'An unforgettable story of men at war' The TimesThis series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.
| EAN: | 9781784879860 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 03.10.2024 |
| Titel der Reihe: | Vintage Classics## |
| Autoren: | Flanagan, Richard |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 464 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II & Holocaust |
| Keyword: | booker prize winners; booker; prize winning books; award winning books; literary fiction; good books; literary gifts; documentary; unbroken; imagine; booker prize; ian mcewan; the railway man; booker prize shortlist; man booker shortlist; eric lomax railway man; book of the year; booker prize winner; kindle deals; kindle reads; prime reading; romantic fiction; contemporary; ww2 fiction fiction; war fiction; historical fiction; top 10 fiction; war; ww2; historical; world war 2; world war two |
| Fachschema: | Burma / Roman, Erzählung~Myanmar / Roman, Erzählung~Japan / Roman, Erzählung, Humor~Australien / Roman, Erzählung~Weltkrieg 1939/45 / Roman, Erzählung~Gefangenschaft - Kriegsgefangenschaft |
| Fachkategorie: | Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik~Historischer Roman~Belletristik: Besonderheiten |
| Länge: | 197 mm |
| Breite: | 128 mm |
| Höhe: | 29 mm |