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Also by J. G. Ballard:

The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, October 2009
Hardcover
Empire of the Sun, March 2005
Paperback

EMPIRE OF THE SUN
By: J. G. Ballard

Simon & Schuster
March 2005
On Sale: March 1, 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0743265238
EAN: 9780743265232
Paperback
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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 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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