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Empire of the Sun

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The "profound and moving work of the imagination" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) that inspired the classic motion picture by Steven Spielberg, tells the epic story of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China. 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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780743265232
  • ISBN-10: 0743265238
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: March 2005
  • Dimensions: 8.42 x 5.48 x 0.72 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.56 pounds
  • Page Count: 288

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