num_pages: 269
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: English
title: Empire Of The Sun
titlecomplete: Empire Of The Sun (Empire of the Sun, #1)
characters: Jamie Graham, Dr. Ransome, Mary Graham, John Graham
genres: Asia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, Classics, War, China, Japan, Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 20072
places: Shanghai, China
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: Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division