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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... pocket calendar for 1952 - until they found a half - empty packet of Lucky Strike and a box of matches with a yellow and red label decorated with two world globes illuminated by a single match and a pair of Chinese characters . He lit ...
... pocket calendar for 1952 - until they found a half - empty packet of Lucky Strike and a box of matches with a yellow and red label decorated with two world globes illuminated by a single match and a pair of Chinese characters . He lit ...
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... pocket for a coin . A hand - painted cardboard notice , stuck vertically into a box of tangerines , stated in Cantonese that the fruit was five cents each . Sandingham understood the characters . From his pocket he drew a ten - cent ...
... pocket for a coin . A hand - painted cardboard notice , stuck vertically into a box of tangerines , stated in Cantonese that the fruit was five cents each . Sandingham understood the characters . From his pocket he drew a ten - cent ...
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... pocket of his shirt . He would need it later . After it had circled a roundabout , the vehicle slowed down and stopped at Kowloon Hospital where at least half the passengers alighted . This took several minutes , for the bus was full ...
... pocket of his shirt . He would need it later . After it had circled a roundabout , the vehicle slowed down and stopped at Kowloon Hospital where at least half the passengers alighted . This took several minutes , for the bus was full ...
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... pocket before folding the remainder and replacing the floor tile . It was approaching one o'clock . He felt thirsty and under- nourished so he breached a tin of the tomato juice and drank it by sucking through the holes made by the can ...
... pocket before folding the remainder and replacing the floor tile . It was approaching one o'clock . He felt thirsty and under- nourished so he breached a tin of the tomato juice and drank it by sucking through the holes made by the can ...
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... of taking a sheet of paper from his inside jacket pocket . By doing so , he momentarily delayed the demand he had to make . He did not like doing what he was now engaged upon : he had been a refugee , an outcast SPRING 1952 25.
... of taking a sheet of paper from his inside jacket pocket . By doing so , he momentarily delayed the demand he had to make . He did not like doing what he was now engaged upon : he had been a refugee , an outcast SPRING 1952 25.
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