by J. G. Ballard · DEBOLSILLO · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483468142
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In 1941, Shanghai is a city in flames after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Jim, a British boy, searches for his parents amidst the chaos. Captured and taken to a Japanese prison camp, he experiences the difficulties of confinement. After three years, Jim witnesses the bombing of Nagasaki, marking the end of the war and an uncertain future. 'Empire of the Sun' is an autobiographical novel about war, loss, and survival, seen through the eyes of a child in a disrupted world.
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.
