Hiroshima Joe
Author(s): Martin Booth
First published in 1985, "Hiroshima Joe" is one of the most powerful novels about the experience of war. Joe Sandingham was interred in a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. Years later, a shell of a man and living in a cheap Hong Kong hotel, his compassion and will to survive define a clear-eyed and unexpected heroism.
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"Engrossing...unflinchingly graphic." --"The New York Times"
"A brilliant achievement." --"Daily Telegraph" (UK)
"A carefully controlled study of man's beastliness to man, vividly observed." --"Financial Times"
"Fashion[s] a moving drama from the cruelties and pathologies of modern warfare and some moral meaning from the terrible travail of a man who survived, and even transcended it." --"Publishers Weekly"
Martin Booth is a critically acclaimed novelist and film writer. His novel, The Industry of Souls, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His new novel, Islands of Silence, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.
General Fields
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- : St Martin's Press
- : St Martin's Press
- : 0.386
- : 01 January 2003
- : 210mm X 146mm X 25mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Illustrations, black and white
- : Illustrations, black and white
- : Modern fiction; War fiction
- : 304
- : 823.914
- : Paperback
- : Martin Booth