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Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (2005, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-100743265238
ISBN-139780743265232
eBay Product ID (ePID)43118828
Product Key Features
Book TitleEmpire of the Sun
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, War & Military, Media Tie-In
Publication Year2005
GenreFiction
AuthorJ. G. Ballard
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.5 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-278651
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., 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPR6015.I3
