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The heartrending story of a British boy's four-year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.Read More

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    The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. 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 our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith, Rivka Galchen, Hari Kunzru and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.

  • Play

    From the master of dystopia comes his 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 our time it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.

  • BookDepository

    Empire of the Sun : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9780007221523 : : 20 Oct 2011 : The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.

  • 0007221525
  • 9780007221523
  • J. G. Ballard
  • 20 February 2006
  • Harper Perennial
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
  • New edition
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