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COLLINS MODERN CLASSICS — EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Publisher:
FOURTH ESTATE
| Author:
Ballard, J.G.
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
FOURTH ESTATE
Author:
Ballard, J.G.
Language:
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Format:
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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience: classics which will endure for generations to come.. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Trapped in a prison camp and separated from his parents, Jim is witness to the death, starvation and chaos of the Second World War. His story is a mesmerising vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Booker, Empire of the Sun is an astounding, hypnotically compelling novel by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged. ‘Remarkable €¦ form, content and style fuse with complete success €¦ one of the great war novels of the 2th century’ William Boyd
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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience: classics which will endure for generations to come.. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Trapped in a prison camp and separated from his parents, Jim is witness to the death, starvation and chaos of the Second World War. His story is a mesmerising vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Booker, Empire of the Sun is an astounding, hypnotically compelling novel by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged. ‘Remarkable €¦ form, content and style fuse with complete success €¦ one of the great war novels of the 2th century’ William Boyd
About Author
J.G. Ballard was born in 193 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was later filmed by Steven Spielberg. His most recent novel was Kingdom Come, published in 26; his autobiography Miracles of Life was published in 28 to much acclaim. J.G. Ballard died in 29.
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