The heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.
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.
| ISBN: | 9780007268405 |
| Publication date: | 4th February 2008 |
| Author: | J G Ballard |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 351 pages |
| Series: | The Perennial Collection |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Autobiography: writers |