Hiroshima Joe
Martin Booth$18.69
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One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war, first published in 1985
Captured by Hirohito's soldiers at the fall of Hong Kong and transferred to a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima, Captain Joe Sandingham was present when the bomb was dropped. Now a shell of a man, he lives in a cheap Hong Kong hotel, scrounging for food and the occasional bar girl. The locals call him "Hiroshima Joe" with a mixture of pity and contempt. But Joe--haunted by the sounds and voices of his past, debilitated by illness, and shattered by his wartime ordeal--is a man whose compassion and will to survive define a clear-eyed and unexpected heroism.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 01/01/2003
ISBN: 9780312268053
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.30d