Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard

A boy survives war-torn occupied Shanghai

Good Condition – Vintage book with noticeable cover, spine and edge wear, plus heavy page tanning.

As the Second World War reaches Shanghai, young Jim is separated from his parents and thrown into a world transformed by invasion, hunger and fear. Captured and confined in a Japanese internment camp, he learns to survive through alertness, imagination and an unsettling fascination with the machinery of war. J. G. Ballard draws on his own childhood experiences to portray innocence adapting to catastrophe. Vivid, unsentimental and deeply affecting, Empire of the Sun explores endurance, displacement and the strange ways a child makes meaning from violence and collapse.