August,
1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the
Thai-Burma Death Railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans
is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two
years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men
under his command from starvation, from cholera, from
pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will
change him forever.
Moving deftly from the POW camp
to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo
and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this
savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and
family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and
truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age,
prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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