Empire Of The Sun
Author(s): J G Ballard
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. 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.
General Information
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- : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- : Harper Element
- : 0.27
- : 01 March 2019
- : 2.4 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : books
Other Specifications
- : J G Ballard
- : Paperback
- : 1904
- : English
- : 823.914
- : 352