Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard
ISBN: | 9780007221523 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Published: | 20 February, 2006 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | |
Editions: |
28 other editions
of this product
|
Empire of the Sun
J. G. Ballard
The heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.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.
Shop Preferences
Customize which shops to display. You can include the following shops by logging in to change your settings.