Empire of the sun
Ballard, J. G., 1930-20092006
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Total copies: 1
'Empire of the Sun' is a novel of war, starvation and of survival, of internment camps and death marches, which blends honesty with a vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. It is rooted in the author's own experience of war in our time. 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.
Main title:
Empire of the sun / J.G. Ballard.
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Imprint:
London : Harper Perennial, 2006.
Collation:
351 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1984.
Awards:
Guardian Fiction Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize
ISBN:
9780007221523 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914
LC class:
PR6052.A46
Language:
English
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BRN:
173191