Empire of the Sun [electronic resource]
Ballard, J. G.2012
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'Extraordinary' Angela Carter 'One of the great war novels of the 20th century' William Boyd 'A remarkable journey' Sunday Times The heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Trapped in a prison camp and separated from his parents, Jim is witness to the death, starvation and chaos of the Second World War. His story is a mesmerising vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Booker, Empire of the Sun is an astounding, hypnotically compelling novel by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged. 'Gripping and remarkable ... I have never read a novel which gave me a stronger sense of the blind helplessness of war ... unforgettable' Observer 'A brilliant fusion of history, autobiography and imaginative speculation. An incredible literary achievement and almost intolerably moving' Anthony Burgess
Main title:
Empire of the Sun [electronic resource] / J. G. Ballard
Author:
Ballard, J. G., AuthorLanchester, John, Author of introduction, etc
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2012
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
The Perennial Collection
Audience:
Reading grade level: 8-9
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.
ISBN:
9780007283132
Language:
English
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BRN:
2788185
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