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by J. G. Ballard


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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941--a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.

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  • Title Empire of the Sun
  • Author J. G. Ballard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, London
  • Date 2005-03-07
  • ISBN 9780743265232 / 0743265238
  • Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.48 x 0.72 in (21.39 x 13.92 x 1.83 cm)
  • Reading level 1130
  • Library of Congress subjects Boys, War stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005278651
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/01/2005, Page 134
  • Multicultural Review, 09/01/2005, Page 15
  • Time, 05/04/2009, Page 20

About the author

J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) was the author of numerous books, including Concrete Island, The Kindness of Women, and Crash. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology.
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