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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... deck of the Yaumati car ferry . It was in the scuppers . ' ' Why did you not take it to the police ? There might be a reward . ' Sandingham shrugged and tried a smile in return . Leung appreciated that : it was a sign that the European ...
... deck of the Yaumati car ferry . It was in the scuppers . ' ' Why did you not take it to the police ? There might be a reward . ' Sandingham shrugged and tried a smile in return . Leung appreciated that : it was a sign that the European ...
Page 29
... was slightly more expensive and one seldom found Europeans travelling on it as ordinary passengers , for they usually stayed on the car and lorry deck with their saloons . And there were other ferries run by the same company SPRING 1952 29.
... was slightly more expensive and one seldom found Europeans travelling on it as ordinary passengers , for they usually stayed on the car and lorry deck with their saloons . And there were other ferries run by the same company SPRING 1952 29.
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... deck , not on the lower five - cent one where the poor Chinese , the coolies and the amahs and the servants sat only a couple of feet above the waterline . The turnstile chattered as he pushed through it . Once on the ferry pier , he ...
... deck , not on the lower five - cent one where the poor Chinese , the coolies and the amahs and the servants sat only a couple of feet above the waterline . The turnstile chattered as he pushed through it . Once on the ferry pier , he ...
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... deck . He sat on the open part of the deck , on one of the long , wooden- slat benches , first pushing the angled backrest over the seats . The seating was in this way reversable , so that everyone could face the direction of travel ...
... deck . He sat on the open part of the deck , on one of the long , wooden- slat benches , first pushing the angled backrest over the seats . The seating was in this way reversable , so that everyone could face the direction of travel ...
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... deck to give himself support . The feeling passed , but it worried him . He had had such giddy attacks increasingly of late . Sandingham leaned over the rail , hoping the breeze would drive away his sense of nausea . Before him lay the ...
... deck to give himself support . The feeling passed , but it worried him . He had had such giddy attacks increasingly of late . Sandingham leaned over the rail , hoping the breeze would drive away his sense of nausea . Before him lay the ...
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