Empire of the Sun

By J. G. Ballard format: trade paperback publication: February 2006 ISBN: 9780007221523

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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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