I read this March 2016 it is the choice for May Regency Book Club.
Not for the faint earthed This is a grueling tale of the Burma Death Railway. The author's father was a survivor. It is beautifully written (winner of the Man Booker prize 2014) I think it's being made into a film. It is a love story, a human story an inhuman story... The blurb sums it up:
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. 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.
Heartbreaking and gruesome, I really enjoyed this book
10/10
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