by J. G. Ballard · Timun Mas Narrativa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788445077122
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«El Imperio del Sol» is the war novel by J. G. Ballard, published by Timun Mas Narrativa in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
Shanghai, 1941. Jim, an eleven-year-old boy born in the city, is separated from his parents after the attack on Pearl Harbor and interned in a camp where, amid scarcity and violence, he finds a strange security. The story extends to the atomic bomb of 1945, with survival and loss as the axes of a child's gaze.
«El Imperio del Sol» is the first volume of the J. G. Ballard Library. The film adaptation of the novel was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1987.
For readers of historical fiction and stories set during the Second World War.
James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.
