Empire of the Sun

by Ballard, J. G.
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ISBN: 9780743265232
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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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Ballard, J. G.
  • ISBN: 9780743265232
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.42 x 0.72
  • Number Of Pages: 288
  • Publication Year: 2005

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