num_pages: 279
description: From the creators of the movie tie-in blockbusteries, The Color Purple, comes the most certain money-making event of this winter. Empire of the Sun is the story of a young boy in Shanghai who witnesses the outbreak of World War II and the bombing of Nagasaki.
language: English
title: Empire of the Sun
titlecomplete: Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1)
characters: John Graham, Dr. Ransome, Jamie Graham, Mary Graham
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Asia, Japan, China, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 20072
places: China, Shanghai
series: Empire of the Sun
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 441792000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Buccaneer Books