**2014曼布克獎得主***Winner of 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
Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post From the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of lo
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 i
Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostFrom the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love
*獲2014曼布克獎* 榮獲2014曼布克獎。書名原自日本江戶時代「俳聖」松尾芭蕉所寫的遊記「奧之細道」，作者巧妙的將之與故事場景泰國「死亡鐵路」做連結。背景設於二戰時期位於泰國「死亡鐵路」的日本戰俘營，一位澳洲的外科醫生Dorrigo帶著與叔叔的妻子的戀情煩惱來到這裡，每天面對這些日籍戰俘的痛苦、飢餓和良心的掙扎，有天他收到了一封信，因此改變了他一生。From the winner of Aus
＊＊榮獲2014曼布克獎(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
In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Ze
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written
Cultural Writing. Travel. American Indian Studies. Abandoning her sojourn in Paris's literary culture in her late 20s, Katherine McNamara traveled to Alaska in 1976 'to learn how to live. The oil indu
The internationally acclaimed dramatist Edward Bond endures as one of the towering figures of contemporary British theatre. His plays are read at schools and university level. "Edward Bond is the mos
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as the
The early Japanese haiku masters were indefatigable walkers. Basho traveled 1,500 miles to produce a single slim volume, "The Narrow Road to the Deep North." In a rootless 21st centu
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as the
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, the hypnotic tale of a ghost writer writing the memoir of a notorious con man, and the chilling events that unfold as the
