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.
General Information
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- : St Martin's Press
- : St Martin's Press
- : 0.386
- : 01 January 2003
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Martin Booth
- : Paperback
- : 304
- : Modern fiction; War fiction
- : Illustrations, black and white
More About The Product
"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.
