Hiroshima Joe - by Martin Booth (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war, first published in 1985</b> <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Engrossing...unflinchingly graphic." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"A brilliant achievement." --<i>Daily Telegraph (UK)</i> <p/>"A carefully controlled study of man's beastliness to man, vividly observed." --<i>Financial Times</i> <p/>"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." --<i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Martin Booth </b>is a critically acclaimed novelist and film writer. His novel, <i>The Industry of Souls</i>, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His new novel, <i>Islands of Silence</i>, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.</p>
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