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Hiroshima Joe by Martin Booth is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hiroshima Joe about?
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
Who reads Hiroshima Joe?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Martin Booth
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140097306
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.11 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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