| Record Number |
737795 |
| ISBN |
9780007221523 (paperback) |
| Author |
Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009 author. |
| Title |
Empire of the sun / J.G. Ballard. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Harper Perennial, 2006. |
| Pagination etc. |
351, 32 pages : map ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Harper Perennial modern classics |
| Contents note |
Originally published: London : Gollancz, 1984. |
| Summary Note |
Based on JG Ballard’s own childhood, Empire of the Sun is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese occupied wartime Shanghai a mesmerizing and hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches, which blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction |
| Boys -- Fiction |
| Shanghai (China) -- Fiction |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F BALL |
