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Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in own time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.
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Empire of the Sun, James Graham Ballard
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- Released
- 1994
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- Title
- Empire of the Sun
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James Graham Ballard
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 351
- ISBN10
- 0007766408
- ISBN13
- 9780007766406
- Series
- Empire of the Sun
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Family, Classics, Friendship, USA, Military Fiction, Wars, World War II, Japan, English Literature, Parenthood, Adapted for Film, China, Teens, Childhood, Mothers, Search
- First published
- 1984
- Original title
- Empire of the Sun
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in own time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.