by J. G. Ballard · Grafton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586064306
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«Empire of the Sun» is J. G. Ballard's semi-autobiographical novel, published by Grafton in paperback (352 pages, in English).
During the Second World War, James Graham, a British boy in Shanghai, is separated from his parents after the Japanese invasion of the city. Interned in a prisoner-of-war camp, he survives hunger and violence by clinging to his wits. The novel is based on Ballard's childhood in a Japanese camp.
Originally published in 1984, it was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. This edition appeared on 29 August 1985.
For readers of historical fiction and war stories 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.
