Hiroshima Joe: A NovelPicador, 2013 M10 8 - 304 pages One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war, first published in 1985 |
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Page 13
... centres bearing the initials of the hotel and its crest . Outside , sunlight blazoned off the front lawn and off the rows of porcelain plant pots containing chrysanthemums and asters : these lined the low front wall which , in turn ...
... centres bearing the initials of the hotel and its crest . Outside , sunlight blazoned off the front lawn and off the rows of porcelain plant pots containing chrysanthemums and asters : these lined the low front wall which , in turn ...
Page 15
... centres of which were gutters running with slow trickles of stinking water . When the typhoons came in the late summer months , these alleyways were awash with garbage . As he passed the shops , he looked in them . One was a sweet- shop ...
... centres of which were gutters running with slow trickles of stinking water . When the typhoons came in the late summer months , these alleyways were awash with garbage . As he passed the shops , he looked in them . One was a sweet- shop ...
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... centre of it ran a depression , once a deep ditch , the sides of which had now been eroded smooth : he had been one of those who'd dug it . Dotted around the area were small groups of people sitting or standing by low hovels made of ...
... centre of it ran a depression , once a deep ditch , the sides of which had now been eroded smooth : he had been one of those who'd dug it . Dotted around the area were small groups of people sitting or standing by low hovels made of ...
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... centre was a red stone and surrounding this were seven smaller , greeny- blue stones . ' A ruby and aquamarines , ' said Sandingham , with what he hoped sounded like authority . ' Aquamarines , certainly , ' replied Leung , twisting the ...
... centre was a red stone and surrounding this were seven smaller , greeny- blue stones . ' A ruby and aquamarines , ' said Sandingham , with what he hoped sounded like authority . ' Aquamarines , certainly , ' replied Leung , twisting the ...
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... centre of Hong Kong : Central District , with its banks , merchant com- pany and shipping line offices and its shops for the wealthy lining the waterfront of Connaught Road . As the ferry neared the Hong Kong - side pier he could see ...
... centre of Hong Kong : Central District , with its banks , merchant com- pany and shipping line offices and its shops for the wealthy lining the waterfront of Connaught Road . As the ferry neared the Hong Kong - side pier he could see ...
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