Empire Of The Sun

Author: J G Ballard

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  • : $22.99 AUD
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  • : 9780008329754
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
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  • : 0.27
  • : March 2019
  • : 2.4 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
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  • : 22.99
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  • : J G Ballard
  • : 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
  • : 1904
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  • : English
  • : 823.914
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  • : 352
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Barcode 9780008329754
9780008329754

Description

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. 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.