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Empire of the Sun (Paperback)

by J. G. Ballard (Author) "WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins..." (more)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (Mar 1 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0743265238
ISBN-13: 978-0743265232
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 250 g

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"An outstanding novel...a classic adventure story."

-- The New York Times

"A profound and moving work of the imagination."

-- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An incredible literary achievement....Brilliant."

-- Anthony Burgess

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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.

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WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund. Read the first page

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting POV of WWII, Oct 17 2007

By	N. Manning (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

On the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, all European and American persons in Japanese occupied China were herded into internment camps. This is the story of one boy's war, eleven-year-old Jim who is separated from his parents on that fateful day. First living by his wits on the streets, a foreigner in the country in which he was born, and then later joining other British and Americans in an internment camp where he is used by everyone. This is a story of war and is a dark story, which progressively gets darker and darker. It was a good read but not a page-turner nor did it particularly touch me. I wish we had been given deeper insight into the other characters feelings and I had hoped for more by the ending. Nevertheless, a good read and an interesting point of view of World War II.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, April 8 2007

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my grandfather, Peter Gilchrist, was in the same camp as the author and the main character.

i highly recomend reading this book especially if you like war or dramas.

a very powerful book.

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