Empire of the Sun Collins Modern Classics

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

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..
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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9780008555368
Published: May 2022

Number of pages: 352
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 26 mm

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers