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Author Topic: Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard  (Read 3554 times)

Offline Ophiuchus

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
« on: April 08, 2015, 12:27 PM »
Name of the book: Empire of the Sun
Genre: War, Coming of Age
Book publish year: 1985
Rating (out of 5): 4
Brief intro: 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.

Review: Very descriptive, but in a way works well considering the brutal reality the main character has to deal with. Made me sad, there are dark moments, but it's a good book.
 

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Offline Lisa-B

Re: Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2016, 06:59 AM »
Ignore this please
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I m possible'."
Audrey Hepburn
 

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