Empire of the Sun

J G Ballard

ISBN 10: 0006547001 / ISBN 13: 9780006547006

Published by Flamingo, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Empire of the Sun
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006547001
• ISBN 13: 9780006547006
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1757758878.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47124072
• Signed: 9/13/2025 10:21:18 AM
• Seller catalogs:
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  • 9780006547006

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Synopsis

Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.

Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.

About the Author

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.