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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... Street PoW Camps , Kowloon ( Hong Kong ) : 1942 131 PART FIVE : Po Lin Monastery , Lantau Island ( Hong Kong ) : Summer , 1952 179 PART SIX : On board SS Lisbon Maru off the Chinese coast and Japan : 1-15 October , 1942 199 PART SEVEN ...
... Street PoW Camps , Kowloon ( Hong Kong ) : 1942 131 PART FIVE : Po Lin Monastery , Lantau Island ( Hong Kong ) : Summer , 1952 179 PART SIX : On board SS Lisbon Maru off the Chinese coast and Japan : 1-15 October , 1942 199 PART SEVEN ...
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... street lamps . The metal window - frames were warm to his touch . Gripping them he peered out of the window , craning his head sideways to catch a glimpse of the papaya tree at the end of the alleyway between the two buildings . He ...
... street lamps . The metal window - frames were warm to his touch . Gripping them he peered out of the window , craning his head sideways to catch a glimpse of the papaya tree at the end of the alleyway between the two buildings . He ...
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... street wall of the hotel grounds . From over the wall he could hear footsteps moving along the pavement . They fell with slow deliberation and he visualised a Hong Kong police constable on his beat , black leather belt , revolver ...
... street wall of the hotel grounds . From over the wall he could hear footsteps moving along the pavement . They fell with slow deliberation and he visualised a Hong Kong police constable on his beat , black leather belt , revolver ...
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... streets of Mong Kok . The roomboy had seen him one evening , seated at a food stall in Tung Choy Street , eating plain rice with some green vegetables and a sliver of fish . It was probably all the man could afford . Trying not to limp ...
... streets of Mong Kok . The roomboy had seen him one evening , seated at a food stall in Tung Choy Street , eating plain rice with some green vegetables and a sliver of fish . It was probably all the man could afford . Trying not to limp ...
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... street below . A taxi , a Morris saloon painted red with canary yellow Chinese charac- ters on the doors , was just driving off . The bellboy , a Chinese lad about twelve years of age , wearing a white uniform with a matching pork - pie ...
... street below . A taxi , a Morris saloon painted red with canary yellow Chinese charac- ters on the doors , was just driving off . The bellboy , a Chinese lad about twelve years of age , wearing a white uniform with a matching pork - pie ...
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