Empire of the Sun
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780743265232
Subjects: Movie / TV Tie-Ins; Fiction; Historical - General; Movie-TV Tie-In - General; Fiction / General; General; Boys; China; Shanghai; War stories; World War, 1939-1945
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.