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Empire of the Sun

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by J. G. Ballard
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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.

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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Empire of the Sun

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 19, 2013

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781476737539

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781476737539
      • File size: 2720 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 1130
    • Text Difficulty: 8-9

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      April 1, 2005
      In Ballard's moving 1984 World War II novel, a small British boy searches for his parents and gets imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp. Pretty strong stuff.

      Copyright 2005 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:1130
  • Text Difficulty:8-9

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