Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun #1)
J.G. Ballard
4.00 · 24 ratings · Published: 27 Mar 1984
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.
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- classics 3
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- coming of age 2
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- military 2
- action / adventure 2
- drama 1
- horror 1
- family 1
- military, war & conflict 1
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- audiobook 2
- young adult 2
- book 1
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The 'Empire of the Sun' series
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