Vous voulez voir cette page en fran�ais ? Cliquez ici.

Quantity:

More Buying Choices

11 used & new from CDN$ 0.85

Have one to sell? Sell yours here

Search inside another edition of this book

Empire Of The Sun Modern Classics (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)

4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

List Price:	CDN$ 19.95
Price:	CDN$ 14.56 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over CDN$ 39. Details
You Save:	CDN$ 5.39 (27%)
	o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca. Gift-wrap available.

Only 2 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).

8 new from CDN$ 4.02 3 used from CDN$ 0.85

Frequently Bought Together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

The Kindness of Women

by J. G. Ballard

4.5 out of 5 stars (8) CDN$ 15.58

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

by Art Spiegelman

4.4 out of 5 stars (103) CDN$ 12.37

Crash: A Novel

by J. G Ballard

3.3 out of 5 stars (26) CDN$ 11.78

Concrete Island

by Jg Ballard

4.2 out of 5 stars (4) CDN$ 13.10

The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

4.1 out of 5 stars (248) CDN$ 10.79

› Explore similar items

Product Details

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: UK General Books; New edition edition (Mar 9 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0007221525
ISBN-13: 978-0007221523
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 300 g

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #226,592 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Review

'An extraordinary achievement' Angela Carter 'A remarkable journey into the mind of a growing boy ! horror and humanity are blended into a unique and unforgettable fiction' Sunday Times 'An immensely powerful novel -- in a class of its own for sheer imaginative force' Daily Telegraph 'Remarkable ! form, content and style fuse with complete success ! one of the great war novels of the 20th century' William Boyd 'Gripping and remarkable ! I have never read a novel which gave me a stronger sense of the blind helplessness of war ! unforgettable' Observer 'Ranks with the greatest British writing on the Second World War' The Times 'A brilliant fusion of history, autobiography and imaginative speculation. An incredible literary achievement and almost intolerably moving' Anthony Burgess

Product Description

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 own time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.

See all Product Description

Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.

First Sentence
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

Explore More
Concordance

Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover

Tag this product

(What's this?)

Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items.

What do customers ultimately buy after viewing this item?

	90% buy the item featured on this page: Empire Of The Sun Modern Classics 4.0 out of 5 stars (2) CDN$ 14.56
	3% buy Lullabies For Little Criminals: A Novel 3.9 out of 5 stars (20) CDN$ 12.78
	3% buy We Need To Talk About Kevin: A Novel 4.0 out of 5 stars (65) CDN$ 13.13
	3% buy Wetlands 2.1 out of 5 stars (8) CDN$ 16.60

Explore similar items

Customer Reviews

2 Reviews

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

Average Customer Review

4.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most helpful customer reviews

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

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)

This review is from: Empire of the Sun (Paperback)

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.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you?

Report this

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, April 8 2007

By	Allyson Gilchrist - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Empire of the Sun (Paperback)

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.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you?

Report this

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 2 customer reviews...