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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Page 9
... road . He heard a swishing sound . The main foyer doors had been opened . The night clerk had obviously heard the fruit falling on the drive and come out to investigate . He glanced right then left . An unripe papaya had toppled after ...
... road . He heard a swishing sound . The main foyer doors had been opened . The night clerk had obviously heard the fruit falling on the drive and come out to investigate . He glanced right then left . An unripe papaya had toppled after ...
Page 15
... Road and even then seldom bought food . They purchased clothes , consumer goods , jewellery , curios of soapstone , jade or ivory . The buying of food was invariably left to their servants . However , the shop owner was not surprised ...
... Road and even then seldom bought food . They purchased clothes , consumer goods , jewellery , curios of soapstone , jade or ivory . The buying of food was invariably left to their servants . However , the shop owner was not surprised ...
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... road in his mind that even garbage on the floor reminded him of it . He smiled ruefully . It was perhaps fitting that it was such trash that did cause his brain to think back . That was what it had all been about , really . On the floor ...
... road in his mind that even garbage on the floor reminded him of it . He smiled ruefully . It was perhaps fitting that it was such trash that did cause his brain to think back . That was what it had all been about , really . On the floor ...
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... Road , Argyle Street and Ma Tau Wai Road . Sandingham looked at the area of dust and scrubby grass . Through the centre of it ran a depression , once a deep ditch , the sides of which had now been eroded smooth : he had been one of ...
... Road , Argyle Street and Ma Tau Wai Road . Sandingham looked at the area of dust and scrubby grass . Through the centre of it ran a depression , once a deep ditch , the sides of which had now been eroded smooth : he had been one of ...
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... he questioned . He knew that , to buy such a brooch at one of the jewellery shops in Hankow Road , the owner must have had to pay at least four hundred dollars ... ' You are the only man who would even try SPRING 1952 21.
... he questioned . He knew that , to buy such a brooch at one of the jewellery shops in Hankow Road , the owner must have had to pay at least four hundred dollars ... ' You are the only man who would even try SPRING 1952 21.
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