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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... fires were smoking under oil cans and broken plates upon which the most basic of foodstuffs was being pre- pared . He remembered how he , too , had once cooked with empty tin cans and not all that far away , either . Kowloon City was ...
... fires were smoking under oil cans and broken plates upon which the most basic of foodstuffs was being pre- pared . He remembered how he , too , had once cooked with empty tin cans and not all that far away , either . Kowloon City was ...
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