"Before Hiroshima is a fine story, we'd be happy to have more."
-Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize Winner
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"Barkan is an impressive storyteller who captures a difficult subject with an easy charm."
THE TIMES, LONDON
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"Before Hiroshima is a finished and quite gripping work . . . an intellectual as well as a moral thriller . . . Josh Barkan is a young writer to watch."
THE JAPAN TIMES
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"The book is an impressive debut."
THE NOTRE DAME REVIEW
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"The power of Barkan's narratives lies in his characters, who are as three-dimensionally human as they come."
BALTIMORE CITY REVIEW