The Narrow Road to the Deep North

by Richard Flanagan

A Booker Prize Winner back in 2014, this tells the story of a group of Australian POWs forced to work on the Burma railway in WW2. And that is a massive undersell on this book. It's a tough read because it's so unrelentingly grim. But it's a haunting, thoughtful story that looks at the business of war, virtue and suffering and survivor's guilt through the life and actions of the main character, Dorrigo Evans. 

I honestly could not stop thinking about this book. It's also been made into a screen adaptation, but, it was a book first. Read it. 

Paperback edition in excellent condition.