Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
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Author: J. G. BallardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-01
ISBN: 0743265238
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780743265232
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Empire of the Sun
Book Review: Transcendent
Summary: 5 Stars
Upon its publication, EMPIRE OF THE SUN alerted a wider audience to something those of us who had been reading Ballard for years already knew -- that J.G. Ballard is one of the major authors of our time. It's a pleasure to re-read EMPIRE in 2009, (the novel's twenty-fifth anniversary) and discover it remains as hauntingly dream-like and vivid as ever.
The movie always struck me as an unfortunate misfire -- Spielberg, who is all about surface and texture, trying and failing to interpret Ballard, who's all about understatement and "inner space." I never have a desire to go back to the movie, but I could read EMPIRE again and again, and I never hesitate to recommend it to family and friends.
Summary of Empire of the Sun
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.
Ballard, J.G. Books
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