Empire Of The Sun
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: first edition, first printing
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: some wear along the edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark. Binding condition: Tight and secure.
In the chaos of Shanghai's fall to Japanese forces in 1941, eleven-year-old Jim Graham is separated from his parents and must navigate the brutal realities of war entirely alone — a boy adrift in a world that has ceased to make sense. Empire of the Sun chronicles Jim's harrowing journey from the pampered existence of a British expat child to the squalor of a Japanese internment camp, where survival depends on cunning, adaptability, and an almost pathological fascination with the very aircraft and pilots that have shattered his world. J.G. Ballard draws on his own wartime childhood in Shanghai to craft a semi-autobiographical masterwork that blurs the line between innocence and experience, wonder and atrocity. His prose is precise and hallucinatory, capturing the surreal logic of a child who finds beauty in devastation and heroism in the enemy. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this novel stands as one of the most visceral and profound accounts of civilian life during wartime — leaving the reader to question what is truly lost when a child is forced to become something else entirely.
Author: J.G. Ballard
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Simon & Schuster
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: first edition, first printing
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. Jacket: some wear along the edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark. Binding condition: Tight and secure.
In the chaos of Shanghai's fall to Japanese forces in 1941, eleven-year-old Jim Graham is separated from his parents and must navigate the brutal realities of war entirely alone — a boy adrift in a world that has ceased to make sense. Empire of the Sun chronicles Jim's harrowing journey from the pampered existence of a British expat child to the squalor of a Japanese internment camp, where survival depends on cunning, adaptability, and an almost pathological fascination with the very aircraft and pilots that have shattered his world. J.G. Ballard draws on his own wartime childhood in Shanghai to craft a semi-autobiographical masterwork that blurs the line between innocence and experience, wonder and atrocity. His prose is precise and hallucinatory, capturing the surreal logic of a child who finds beauty in devastation and heroism in the enemy. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this novel stands as one of the most visceral and profound accounts of civilian life during wartime — leaving the reader to question what is truly lost when a child is forced to become something else entirely.