Empire of the Sun - Collins Modern Classics

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.. Vorwort Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Zusammenfassung Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come..

Product details

• Authors: J G Ballard, J. G. Ballard
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.05.2022
• EAN: 9780008555368
• ISBN: 978-0-00-855536-8
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Collins Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Legal, Modern & contemporary fiction, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)