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| Original title | Empire of the Sun |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Author | J.G. Ballard |
| Year | Den Norske Bokklubben, 1989 |
| First Published | 1984 |
| ISBN | 8252518559 |
| Google Books ID | kyN64HCZ5QYC |
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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.