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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... Standing on an empty tea chest , Sandingham looked warily through strands of barbed wire strung on metal posts along the top of the wall . His fears were instantly soothed . Instead of a policeman walking the pavement an elderly man in ...
... Standing on an empty tea chest , Sandingham looked warily through strands of barbed wire strung on metal posts along the top of the wall . His fears were instantly soothed . Instead of a policeman walking the pavement an elderly man in ...
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... standing over him . He wanted only to sleep longer , a desire in him that was deeply rooted and one which he always found inexplicable , even to himself . Lying - in was a luxury of which he had been for so long deprived that now , with ...
... standing over him . He wanted only to sleep longer , a desire in him that was deeply rooted and one which he always found inexplicable , even to himself . Lying - in was a luxury of which he had been for so long deprived that now , with ...
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... standing on the steps leading up to the glass doors . He was counting a tip . The manager swivelled in his chair to talk to the register clerk . Then he stood and crossed the office space behind the desk to consult the register itself ...
... standing on the steps leading up to the glass doors . He was counting a tip . The manager swivelled in his chair to talk to the register clerk . Then he stood and crossed the office space behind the desk to consult the register itself ...
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... standing by the bus stop , reading the previous day's issue of the South China Morning Post . She assumed that he was a poor White Russian . The tangerine was small even for such a fruit , and the peel stung when he wedged some under ...
... standing by the bus stop , reading the previous day's issue of the South China Morning Post . She assumed that he was a poor White Russian . The tangerine was small even for such a fruit , and the peel stung when he wedged some under ...
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... standing by low hovels made of cardboard boxes , plywood scraps , hessian sacking and splintering planks . They were the occupants of the lowest spoke on the refugee wheel of fortune - squatters who had nothing and who lived by petty ...
... standing by low hovels made of cardboard boxes , plywood scraps , hessian sacking and splintering planks . They were the occupants of the lowest spoke on the refugee wheel of fortune - squatters who had nothing and who lived by petty ...
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