Empire of the Sun

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 03/07/2005
ISBN: 9780743265232
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.48w x 0.72d

Review Citations: Library Journal 04/01/2005 pg. 134
Multicultural Review 09/01/2005 pg. 15
Time 05/04/2009 pg. 20