Empire Of The Sun (1984) By J. G. Ballard
 
Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze.
 
Japan invaded China in 1937, and by late 1941 the European inhabitants of Shanghai's International Settlement had become almost accustomed to life in their fragile island of neutrality, witnessing the brutal reality of Japanese occupation from the safety of their palatial homes and American limousines.
 
For eleven-year-old Him born and raised in Shanghai, this was the real war. Events in Europe, glimpsed on flickering newsreels, were as exotic and unreal as the Hollywood epics they preceded. Based on events J. G. Ballard witnessed while interned in Shanghai during World War II, this book is an extraordinary and original addition to the modern literature of war, a novel worthy to stand in the company of All Quiet on the Western Front and The Naked and the Dead. The horrors and privations of the Japanese internment caps, as seen through the eyes of a child to whom they are part of normal life, are presented unflinchingly; yet the novel is written in prose which is often lyrical and even beautiful. Empire of the Sun is both a radical departure from J. G. Ballard's previous fiction and the triumphant crowning achievement of his career to date.
 
One of the most extraordinary novels written about survival in war and the loss of childhood.
 
Contains unknown Inscription
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
278 Pages
In Good Condition