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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... wall outside, should be sufficiently strong to ripen the fruit. After all, in nature they ripened under the shade of the leaves. If it did not ripen then he'd eat it however it was. He dressed stealthily in a creased, off-white shirt ...
... wall outside, should be sufficiently strong to ripen the fruit. After all, in nature they ripened under the shade of the leaves. If it did not ripen then he'd eat it however it was. He dressed stealthily in a creased, off-white shirt ...
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... wall which was punctuated , some yards off , by the vertical line of frosted glass panes to the stairwell of the next building . Somewhere above him he could hear the clatter of mah - jong tiles across a hardwood table top and the ...
... wall which was punctuated , some yards off , by the vertical line of frosted glass panes to the stairwell of the next building . Somewhere above him he could hear the clatter of mah - jong tiles across a hardwood table top and the ...
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... wall outside , should be suffici- ently strong to ripen the fruit . After all , in nature they ripened under the ... walls were white- washed . Upon each step was piled cleaning equipment - mops , galvanised buckets , brooms ...
... wall outside , should be suffici- ently strong to ripen the fruit . After all , in nature they ripened under the ... walls were white- washed . Upon each step was piled cleaning equipment - mops , galvanised buckets , brooms ...
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... 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 holster and ...
... 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 holster and ...
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... wall , five feet high , separated the hotel frontage from the garden of the next building , a block of flats . This wall was made of concrete covered with plaster that had cracked in the summer heat ; like the rear wall , it had three ...
... wall , five feet high , separated the hotel frontage from the garden of the next building , a block of flats . This wall was made of concrete covered with plaster that had cracked in the summer heat ; like the rear wall , it had three ...
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