Author： Richard Flanagan

Publisher： Chatto Windus

This is shortlisted for 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 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.

本書入圍2014年布克獎。至此之后，對他們來說世界上只有兩類人：處于戰(zhàn)爭前線的人和其他人。在日軍用來修建緬甸“死亡鐵路”的戰(zhàn)俘集中營中，外科醫(yī)生多利格·埃文斯經(jīng)常回憶起兩年前與自己年輕嬸嬸的風(fēng)流韻事。在竭盡全力使手下的人免于饑餓、霍亂和挨打的時候，他收到了一封將會改變他一生的來信。 理查德·弗蘭納根的這部史詩體小說巨作講述的是一個人如何面對真實的故事。