J.G. Ballard
Paperback | Pages: 351 pages Rating: 3.99 | 15895 Users | 820 Reviews
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| Title | : | Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun #1) |
| Author | : | J.G. Ballard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Overseas Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 351 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1985 by PANTHER Granada Publishing (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Cultural. China |
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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 deep 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.
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| Original Title: | Empire of the Sun ISBN13 9780743265232 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Empire of the Sun #1 |
| Characters: | Jamie Graham, Dr. Ransome, Mary Graham, John Graham |
| Setting: | Shanghai(China) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1984), Guardian Fiction Award (1984), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1984) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun #1)
Ratings: 3.99 From 15895 Users | 820 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun #1)
I don't know whether it's a mistake to read all the other things this great SF author has read first and THEN read this brilliant WWII novel of a young kid lost in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation or whether it might be best to see all the wildness of his short stories, longer fictions, and utter fascination with flying and emotional deadening in the middle of tragedy FIRST. Or whether everyone and anyone with even a slight interest in reading one of the very best novels of the war shouldI loved this book. Ballard is a superb writer, and I felt as though I was living through the nightmare of Shanghai at the time. It is not a book for the faint-hearted as it is explicit and gory. But well worth the read to gain an insight into what the Chino-Japanese war was all about, phasing into WWII.
'Empire of the Sun' is by far the best war book I have read. Not that I am a big reader of war books at all. I tend to avoid the fiction books as I have found over the years that no matter the imagination of the author, war was entirely more gruesome, graphic and even funnier than anything that could eventuate from one human mind. I find most war fiction embarrassing and trite.However, while 'Empire of the Sun' could be classed as a memoir, the author freely admits that his experiences are not
I must have drifted out at crucial points because I found the geography very confusing. How far was the airfield from the camp? And the Olympic stadium? The Bund? That ceramic factory? The French Concession? How did the Japanese drivers get lost, when Jim can almost always see all these places? The map at the front of the book is crap and doesn't include many of the locations.I thought that the action was confusing at times. Id have an image of what was happening and suddenly someone would pop
JG Ballard's Empire of the Sun is a compelling and engaging novel written from the perspective of a boy held prisoner by the Japanese during WWII. Really fantastic storytelling! Not sure I was prepared for the power of this book. It's both understated and profound in its insights. I ended up reading 4 JG Ballard novels this April. Empire of the Sun couldn't have been more different from these other novels: Atrocity Exhibition, High-Rise and Concrete Island. I'm not even sure I can reconcile
A few days ago, I learned a new Japanese word. Nijuuhibakusha means literally "twice radiation-sick individual", and refers to the few people who, through staggering bad luck, managed to be present both at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then at Nagasaki three days later. The article I read was an obituary for Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the last surviving nijuuhibakusha. I was not surprised to discover that Mr. Yamaguchi was strongly opposed to nuclear weapons, and had spent a substantial part of his
would classify Empire of the Sun as an adventure novel about a boys life during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in WWII.The book is graphic and spares no details about how people die, but it wasnt graphic to the point where I had to put it down. Halfway through reading this, I realized that it was not fiction and was actually an autobiography, which made it a bit more difficult to read the particularly gruesome parts.Empire of the Sun not only has an accurate portrayal of how a teenage boy
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