Empire of the sun
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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| SKU &Barcode | |
| SKU | 1BO03020021100XXX |
| Barcode | 9780007221525 |
| Author | |
| Author | J. K. Rowling |
| Page Number | |
| Page Number | 351 |
| Publisher | |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year Of Edition | |
| Year Of Edition | 2014 |
| SKU &Barcode | |
| SKU | 1BO03020021100XXX |
| Barcode | 9780007221525 |
| Author | |
| Author | J. K. Rowling |
| Page Number | |
| Page Number | 351 |
| Publisher | |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year Of Edition | |
| Year Of Edition | 2014 |