Which book won the Man Booker Prize in 2014. Its subject was Japanese prisoner of war camps in World War 2?
2014 Man Booker Prize Alastair Niven and Erica Wagner. A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 23 July 2014. The shortlist of six novels was announced on 9 September 2014. It was composed of: On 14 October, chair judge A. C. Grayling announced that Australian author Richard Flanagan had won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his book "The Narrow Road to the Deep North". The judges spent three hours deliberating before announcing the winner. Grayling described the historical novel as a "remarkable love story as well as a story about human suffering and comradeship". 2014 Man Booker Prize The 2014 Man Booker
The Railway Man (book) The Railway Man (book) The Railway Man is an autobiographical book by Eric Lomax about his experiences as a prisoner of war during World War II and being forced to help build the Thai-Burma Railway for the Japanese military. The book won the NCR Book Award and the PEN/Ackerley Prize for autobiography. Growing up before World War II, Lomax is fascinated by railways and spends his holidays trying to spot rare locomotives near his home in Edinburgh, Scotland. During the war, Lomax serves as a signals officer and is captured when the Japanese conquer Singapore. At first, the Japanese are