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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... side not by a wall but by flower beds in which grew an assortment of small frond - like palms and broad - leafed bushes . He reached the rear door of the hotel unseen . It was open and he noticed that the dustbins had been taken out ...
... side not by a wall but by flower beds in which grew an assortment of small frond - like palms and broad - leafed bushes . He reached the rear door of the hotel unseen . It was open and he noticed that the dustbins had been taken out ...
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... side . Then , with his fingernail , he prised up the wooden tile which rested under one of the legs at the head of the bed . This tile hid a hollow he had scooped out in the concrete . It had taken him nearly four days working ...
... side . Then , with his fingernail , he prised up the wooden tile which rested under one of the legs at the head of the bed . This tile hid a hollow he had scooped out in the concrete . It had taken him nearly four days working ...
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... side , but they were very expensive and usually found patronage among rich Euro- peans and Chinese , or sailors who had missed the last night ferry and needed to get back either to HMS Tamar , the Royal Naval dockyard on the island , or ...
... side , but they were very expensive and usually found patronage among rich Euro- peans and Chinese , or sailors who had missed the last night ferry and needed to get back either to HMS Tamar , the Royal Naval dockyard on the island , or ...
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... side of his starched shorts . Two European businessmen stood apart watching for the ferry to come in while an elderly American tourist and his wife fiddled with their German camera , trying to insert a new film . Looking down to avoid ...
... side of his starched shorts . Two European businessmen stood apart watching for the ferry to come in while an elderly American tourist and his wife fiddled with their German camera , trying to insert a new film . Looking down to avoid ...
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... side pier he could see along the low grey cliff of the quay rickshaws and cyclists amid the traffic . Lorries , their tarpaulin covers stretched tight over bamboo frames above the truck beds so that they looked like motorised prairie ...
... side pier he could see along the low grey cliff of the quay rickshaws and cyclists amid the traffic . Lorries , their tarpaulin covers stretched tight over bamboo frames above the truck beds so that they looked like motorised prairie ...
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