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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... clothing, until they had finished cleaning the rooms on his corridor, and place it on the sill afterwards. They usually reached his room by half-past nine each morning. The sunlight, reflected off the wall outside, should be ...
... clothing, until they had finished cleaning the rooms on his corridor, and place it on the sill afterwards. They usually reached his room by half-past nine each morning. The sunlight, reflected off the wall outside, should be ...
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... clothing , until they had finished cleaning the rooms on his corridor , and place it on the sill afterwards . They usually reached his room by half - past nine each morning . The sunlight , reflected off the wall outside , should be ...
... clothing , until they had finished cleaning the rooms on his corridor , and place it on the sill afterwards . They usually reached his room by half - past nine each morning . The sunlight , reflected off the wall outside , should be ...
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... cloth was counting through a thin wad of dollar bills . He had come out of the back yard of the building next door . Sandingham stepped off the tea chest and continued around the corner of the hotel . The ground - floor windows were ...
... cloth was counting through a thin wad of dollar bills . He had come out of the back yard of the building next door . Sandingham stepped off the tea chest and continued around the corner of the hotel . The ground - floor windows were ...
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... cloth hidden there , wrapped in newspaper for just such an emergency . This makeshift bandage tight , he lay back on his bed , crudely stitched the rent in his trousers and dozed . ' Mistah Sandin'am . You wake up please . ' He grunted ...
... cloth hidden there , wrapped in newspaper for just such an emergency . This makeshift bandage tight , he lay back on his bed , crudely stitched the rent in his trousers and dozed . ' Mistah Sandin'am . You wake up please . ' He grunted ...
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... cloth bandage had slipped during his sleep and now he was rubbing the material of his trouserleg against raw flesh . With difficulty , for he was stiff in every joint , he lifted his foot into the sink once more and bathed the wound ...
... cloth bandage had slipped during his sleep and now he was rubbing the material of his trouserleg against raw flesh . With difficulty , for he was stiff in every joint , he lifted his foot into the sink once more and bathed the wound ...
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