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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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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.
In this novel about war, set in Japan during World War II and Hong Kong in 1952, horror contrasts with beauty, intensifying each moment as a precious event. The protagonist, British homosexual Joe Sandingham, is an unusual hero/antihero. Decimated physically and emotionally by combat, the tortures of imprisonment as a POW, and the inhumanity of Hiroshima, Joe remains in Hong Kong, an opium addict, stealing and finally even killing to survive. Hiroshima Joe is special because its anti-war statement includes a poignant vision of life's inevitable continuation. Andrew Peters, Pioneer Multi-County Lib., Norman, Okla.
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