Australian author Richard Flanagan has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road To The Deep North.
The book is about a surgeon who is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s wife while also struggling to save the men under his command.
Speaking about the piece of literature, Chair of judges AC Grayling said: “The two great themes from the origin of literature are love and war.
“Written in prose of extraordinary elegance and force, it bridges East and West, past and present, with a story of guilt and heroism. This is the book that Richard Flanagan was born to write.”
