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J.G. Ballard - Empire of the Sun

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In this highly autobiographical novel, the protagonist, a boy named Jim, is interred in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in China during World War II--separated from his parents, and forced to struggle for survival in an alien world. The story culminates in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

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Authors	J.G. Ballard
Fiction Genre	History
Fiction Subgenre	• • • • • • •
Awards	1984 James Tait Black Prize

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HardcoverDecember 01, 1987Buccaneer Books8.75"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.95 lbs.9781568496634

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"Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral pyres of the Chinese Bund."

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