Hiroshima Joe
  • Published:
    Jan-2003
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    304
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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.
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    • Apr-1987
    • Penguin
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140097309
    • ISBN13: 9780140097306
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    • Jan-2003
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 031226805X
    • ISBN13: 9780312268053
    •  
    • Jan-1985
    • Random House (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0712610146
    • ISBN13: 9780712610148
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    • Apr-1986
    • Grove Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0871130564
    • ISBN13: 9780871130563
    •  
    • Oct-2013
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1466853980
    • ISBN13: 9781466853980



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