Title: Empire of the sun
Description: Shanghai, 1941, is a city in turmoil as Japanese troops move in to occupy it in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Amidst the chaos, twelve-year-old Jim searches fruitlessly for his parents before being imprisoned in an internment camp. Here he experiences a world at war - death marches, starvation and the struggle for survival [cover].
Subjects: Boys, Bildungsromans, World War, 1939-1945, British, Fiction, China, fiction, Shanghai (china), fiction, Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945, fiction
Places: Shanghai, China, Shanghai (China)