Empire of the Sun Paperback / softback
by J. G. Ballard
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:20/02/2006
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- ISBN:9780007221523
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:20/02/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780007221523