[Empire of the Sun 01] • Empire of the Sun
![[Empire of the Sun 01] • Empire of the Sun](/cover/Z8cyCW7EIz0cJ7iR/big/[Empire%20of%20the%20Sun%2001]%20%e2%80%a2%20Empire%20of%20the%20Sun.jpg)
- Authors
- Ballard, J.G.
- Publisher
- Simon Schuster
- Tags
- historical , war , classics
- ISBN
- 9781476737539
- Date
- 1984-09-13T07:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.46 MB
- Lang
- en
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.