Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard
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"Shanghai, 1941—a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.
Ballard’s enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint." - from Amazon.com
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Wartime coming-of-age novel for readers of survival stories; follows a boy in a Chinese port city through internment camps to the war's end, ending in survival.
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By Meetup
Wartime coming-of-age novel for readers of survival stories; follows a boy in a Chinese port city through internment camps to the war's end, ending in survival.