Empire of the Sun
Publisher: Flamingo; Harpercollins Pub Ltd
Published: September 12, 1994
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780006547006
First sentence: WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.