cover image Hiroshima Joe

Hiroshima Joe

Martin Booth. Penguin Books, $7.95 (441pp) ISBN 978-0-14-009730-6

In 1952, Joe Sandingham, a former British army officer who lives in a seedy Hong Kong hotel and has only a prostitute for a friend, is tormented by memories of being held prisoner of war by the Japanese and of his lover Bob, who died in combat. PW considered this ""a moving drama.'' (April)