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Empire of the Sun - Collins Modern Classics

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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.. Like everything else since the war, the sky was in a state of change Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Trapped in a prison camp and separated from his parents, Jim is witness to the death, starvation and chaos of the Second World War. His story is a mesmerising vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Booker, Empire of the Sun is an astounding, hypnotically compelling novel by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered, but judged. 'Remarkable ... form, content and style fuse with complete success ... one of the great war novels of the 20th century' William Boyd 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..

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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)

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