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Empire of the Sun (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) (Paperback)
Short Description for Empire of the SunThe heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.
Full description- Publisher: HarperPerennial
- Published: 20 February 2006
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780007221523 ISBN 10: 0007221525
- Sales rank: 14,457
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Full description for Empire of the Sun
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.
