Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard [TRADE PAPERBACK] 2005 • Simon & Schuster

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard 

TRADE PAPERBACK [2005] SIMON & SCHUSTER PAPERBACKS

Book is like new and unread.

Trace shelf wear and a hint of tanning to pages.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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 deep 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.