Empire of the Sun

Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all the events that surround him. Shanghai, 1941 — a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world. Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.

Published 1984.

Binding of book is intact. Missing dust jacket. Stain on back cover, otherwise in good condition. Slight tanning and foxing on edges of book. Slight foxing on endpapers. Very little foxing on certain pages, otherwise in good condition.