Аннотация: Empire of the Sun

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.
Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.
Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.
This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Adam Thirlwell, Hari Kunzru, James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.

Автор/составитель	Баллард Джеймс
Серия	Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Год выпуска	2014
ISBN	9780007221523
Производитель	4th Estate
Количество томов	1
Количество страниц	316
Переплет	Мягкая обложка
Размеры	200x131x23 мм
Цвет	Красный
Тип бумаги	офсетная (60-220 г/м2)
Вес	250
Язык	английский