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Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard

The harrowing story of a British boy’s four-year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War, based on the author’s own wartime experiences. The first illustrated edition, featuring images by award-winning artist Tim Laing.

In the author’s own words, Empire of the Sun ‘draws on my experiences in Shanghai … and in Lunghua CAC [Civilian Assembly Centre] where I was interned from 1942–5’. The protagonist, Jim, takes Ballard’s first name and, like the author, is born in Shanghai to British parents. Aged only 11 when he is separated from his family during the Japanese takeover, he cycles through the Shanghai streets in search of his parents, scavenging food and sleeping in the beds of vanished families. While roaming the creeks and waste tips of Nantao, he finds a dubious guardian in Basie, a shrewd American hustler but, convinced that his parents are in a prison camp, his only hope lies in surrender to the Japanese, and four brutal years in a civilian internment camp.

Features;

• Folio Society First Impression
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2017
• Hardback Three-quarter bound in cloth, 304 pp
• Frontispiece and 8 integrated black & white illustrations by Tim Laing
• Size 245 x 165mm, 975g

Condition: Brand New – Still In Original Unopened Cellophane Wrap

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