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Empire of the sun

Ballard, J. G.Lanchester, John(Introduction by)
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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.

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.

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Fourth Estate
000728313X / 9780007283132
eBook (EPUB)
823.914
28/06/2012
England
English
General
244 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Reprint. Description based on print version record. Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1984.