Overview
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.
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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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