Empire of the Sun

di J. G. Ballard (Autore)

HarperCollins Publishers, 2006

The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai - a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged. This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith, Rivka Galchen, Hari Kunzru and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.

• Autore: J. G. Ballard
• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers
• Anno: 2006
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• Peso: 240 gr.
• EAN: 9780007221523

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