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Empire of the Sun (Collins Modern Classics)

J. G. Ballard

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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. Empire of the Sun is an astounding, hypnotically compelling novel by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged.