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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100671530518
ISBN-139780671530518
eBay Product ID (ePID)1326567
Product Key Features
TopicWar & Military
Publication Year1984
Book TitleEmpire of the Sun
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction
AuthorJ. G. Ballard
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight21.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisThe 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.