Empire of the Sun - Ballard J. G. - 1993

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351 pages. Covers have light creasing. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Spine has minor lean and moderate reading creases. Pages are reasonably tanned. 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 our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; ISBN: 0586064303. ISBN/EAN: 9780586064306. Inventory No: 15040453. By: Ballard J. G. Year: 1993 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: