num_pages: 288
description: 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 own time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.
language: French
title: Empire du Soleil
titlecomplete: Empire du Soleil (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: 20080
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: DENOEL