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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... window that he made his decision. Today he would have a papaya fruit. The lowest was very nearly ripe. If he took it now and kept it on his windowsill it mightjust ripen. Of course, the roomboys might find it. But then he could hide it ...
... window that he made his decision. Today he would have a papaya fruit. The lowest was very nearly ripe. If he took it now and kept it on his windowsill it mightjust ripen. Of course, the roomboys might find it. But then he could hide it ...
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... window of his second - floor room was open , but it faced only a bleak concrete 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 ...
... window of his second - floor room was open , but it faced only a bleak concrete 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 ...
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... 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 could just see it , the fruit ...
... 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 could just see it , the fruit ...
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... window of the ground floor office where the night- duty porter would now be sitting , dozing . The strip light was still on over the desk . Turning right , he came to a navy - blue painted door and slipped the catch . It clicked loudly ...
... window of the ground floor office where the night- duty porter would now be sitting , dozing . The strip light was still on over the desk . Turning right , he came to a navy - blue painted door and slipped the catch . It clicked loudly ...
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... windows were guarded by wavy , wrought - iron grills . He frowned . He hated bars and these bars in particular for , at the rear of the hotel , they protected the storerooms . The alley beneath his room window was narrower than the ...
... windows were guarded by wavy , wrought - iron grills . He frowned . He hated bars and these bars in particular for , at the rear of the hotel , they protected the storerooms . The alley beneath his room window was narrower than the ...
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