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Empire of the Sun

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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.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780007221523
Publication date: 9th May 2024
Author: J G Ballard
Publisher: 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 351 pages
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Second World War fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration
Fiction based on or inspired by true events
Historical Fiction