by J.G. Ballard · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007268405
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«Empire of the Sun» is the war and coming-of-age novel by J.G. Ballard, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Shanghai, 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese troops occupy the city and Jim, a twelve-year-old boy, is separated from his parents. Confined to an internment camp, he witnesses forced marches, hunger and the struggle to survive. The novel, inspired by the author's childhood in China, narrates his passage to maturity in a shattered world.
This 2008 reissue belongs to the Perennial Collection.
For readers of historical fiction and war narrative, interested in coming-of-age novels with an autobiographical basis.
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.
