Australia's latest Man Booker prize winner, will re-read and then release, hopefully in Athens during the convention or somewhere on my EUR travels.
It was quoted by the Chair of Judges The Man Booker prize 2014 A. C Grayling as 'Some years very good books win the Man Booker prize, but this year a masterpiece has won it'
It is a novel set in 1943 in a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma eailway. It is a story about may forms of love and death, war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers oly to discover all that he has lost.

Given to meganh to read, I hope she enjoys it as much as I did.

Ah, found the BCID tucked away inside the book. Carried all the way to Greece for a new reader and then brought all the way back home again for this new reader! Thanks bronwyna.

This book has now attended two international conventions, as I took it with me to Bordeaux in the hope of reading and releasing it there.
Brought back to Australia again and I have finally finished reading it for the second time (was not really the holiday read I had planned for in Greece two years ago).
A great book, full of detail and emotion. The story was mainly centred around the POW experience and life of esteemed surgeon Dorrigo Evans (the character I thought was very loosely based on Weary Dunlop).
This epic story weaved backwards and forwards in time and the resilience and tragedies of life and death on the line was interspersed with Dorrigo’s personal life of a lost love, marriage and infidelity.
A very well written and moving story of war and live. It has been one of the best Booker prize winners for me, the storyline was compelling and the writing took me there.
Thanks for sharing bronwyna.

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Caught at Meetup today

Read this whilst in Vietnam and Cambodia. It is a very well written book, about love, life, family, and death. The story is mainly centred around Dorrigo Evmas, a well respected surgeon and especially his time as a POW working on the Thai/Burma railway and the lives he tried to save, and he sorrow about those that he couldn’t. I did not like Dorrigo very much as a person, as he was quite selfish and self centred, especially in the way he treated his wife and many lovers. He did seem a caring and skilled surgeon though, and did try his best to look out for the POW’s he was responsible for.
Will leave here in Saigon for another reader to enjoy.

Leaving in the Lobby lounge