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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... morning. The sunlight, reflected off the wall outside, should be sufficiently strong to ripen the fruit. After all, in nature they ripened under the shade of the leaves. If it did not ripen then he'd eat it however it was. He dressed ...
... morning. The sunlight, reflected off the wall outside, should be sufficiently strong to ripen the fruit. After all, in nature they ripened under the shade of the leaves. If it did not ripen then he'd eat it however it was. He dressed ...
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... mornings , he could actually taste the firm sweetness of the pinkish flesh in his mouth . Once he had even seen the debris of black pips just outside the wire , and had tried to reach them with his hand . They were too far off so he had ...
... mornings , he could actually taste the firm sweetness of the pinkish flesh in his mouth . Once he had even seen the debris of black pips just outside the wire , and had tried to reach them with his hand . They were too far off so he had ...
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... morning . The sunlight , reflected off the wall outside , should be suffici- ently strong to ripen the fruit . After all , in nature they ripened under the shade of the leaves . If it did not ripen then he'd eat it however it was . He ...
... morning . The sunlight , reflected off the wall outside , should be suffici- ently strong to ripen the fruit . After all , in nature they ripened under the shade of the leaves . If it did not ripen then he'd eat it however it was . He ...
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... morning . He heard a man's cough , then the quiet whisper of a woman . The tree was younger yet also higher than he had expected . Stretching his arms up he found he was still some four feet short of the bottom - most fruit . He looked ...
... morning . He heard a man's cough , then the quiet whisper of a woman . The tree was younger yet also higher than he had expected . Stretching his arms up he found he was still some four feet short of the bottom - most fruit . He looked ...
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... mornings . Sometimes his head ached as well , a sly throb that was not centred on his brow or at the back of his head , like a migraine , but which came from the very core of his skull , the deep tissues of the brain . This morning ...
... mornings . Sometimes his head ached as well , a sly throb that was not centred on his brow or at the back of his head , like a migraine , but which came from the very core of his skull , the deep tissues of the brain . This morning ...
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