What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you thought dead for a quarter of a century, walking towards you? Richard Flanagan's story, of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle's wife, journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappe…
A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared, ' I tell th…
En gruppe amerikanske turister på tur "I Buddhas fodspor" farer vild i Burmas jungle, hvor de støder på en flygtet stamme, som tror, at de er sendt af profeten for at redde stammen fra militærdiktaturet, og det giver anledning til mangeartede groteske kultursammenstød og absurde…
Twelve American tourists join an art expedition and head south into the jungles of Burma. After the mysterious death of their tour leader disharmony breaks out, and the tourists discover that the Burma Road is paved with less-than-honorable intentions, questionable food, and tri…
Twelve American tourists join an art expedition and head south into the jungles of Burma. After the mysterious death of their tour leader disharmony breaks out, and the tourists discover that the Burma Road is paved with less-than-honorable intentions, questionable food, and tri…
A novel of 11 Americans stranded in Burma possessing the resonance of the fable of the Burmese fisherman.
Twelve American tourists join an art expedition that begins in the Himalayan foothills of China - dubbed the true Shangri-La - and heads south into the jungles of Burma. But after the mysterious death of their tour leader, the carefully laid plans fall apart, and disharmony brea…
"A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared, ' I tell t…
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago…
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and com…
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder. When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago…
When Julia Win's father disappears one morning without a trace, the day after her graduation from law school, her family is left unsettled and confused. It's not until a few years later that her mother finds a piece of the puzzle - an unmailed love letter to a Burmese woman name…
When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years before, to a Burmese woman who is unknown to them.