J.G. Ballard
Paperback | Pages: 351 pages Rating: 3.99 | 15895 Users | 820 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Empire of the Sun ISBN13 9780743265232 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Empire of the Sun #1 |
| Characters: | Jamie Graham, Dr. Ransome, Mary Graham, John Graham |
| Setting: | Shanghai(China) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1984), Guardian Fiction Award (1984), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1984) |
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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 deep 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.Describe Epithetical Books Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun #1)
| Title | : | Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun #1) |
| Author | : | J.G. Ballard |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Overseas Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 351 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1985 by PANTHER Granada Publishing (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Cultural. China |
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A biographical novel that deals with Ballard's time in Japanese internment camps during WWII, told with an unusual slant: The narrator almost seems to thrive and looks up to his captors as the only ones who can protect him. On its own, a brutal and fascinating story -- but for fans, it's also the Ballardian Rosetta Stone, the ground zero source of his recurring fascination with drained swimming pools, empty runways, dead pilots, open air cinemas, etc. "Yet only part of his mind would leaveBallard is the quintessential soothsayer of contemporary alienation, perversity and despair. The narrator shows a clinicians steeliness in the face of starvation and nuclear catastrophe, and this detachment is the genesis of Ballards death of affect that became a central theme across his novelsthe scorched and bombed landscapes of his dystopic classics all stems from Shanghai. An uncompromising classic.
I remember one Saturday afternoon during the winter of 1987/1988 when my friend Chuck and I decided that instead of hitting the mall we would take in a movie. Our choices werent great Rent-a-Cop, Return of the Living Dead Part II , Braddock, Missing in Action Part III. Yeah, so, we opted for Empire of the Sun. I had no real inkling to see it. I really didnt care. I remember that the movie had these big gaps of silence. Shots of Christian Bale running around an internment camp, flying a toy
I should have listened to my brother. He said last year that because Crash (1973 published) elicited strong, even if negative, reaction from me, then it meant J. G. Ballard (1930-2009) was a genius. That book was disgusting. I hated almost everything about the story. Up to now I cannot get over the characters that hurt themselves by crashing their cars and there is that part where the hole in the body is bleeding and to stop the blood from flowing, an erect penis has to be inserted. Holy cow. I
'Empire of the Sun' is by far the best war book I have read. Not that I am a big reader of war books at all. I tend to avoid the fiction books as I have found over the years that no matter the imagination of the author, war was entirely more gruesome, graphic and even funnier than anything that could eventuate from one human mind. I find most war fiction embarrassing and trite.However, while 'Empire of the Sun' could be classed as a memoir, the author freely admits that his experiences are not
A few days ago, I learned a new Japanese word. Nijuuhibakusha means literally "twice radiation-sick individual", and refers to the few people who, through staggering bad luck, managed to be present both at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then at Nagasaki three days later. The article I read was an obituary for Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the last surviving nijuuhibakusha. I was not surprised to discover that Mr. Yamaguchi was strongly opposed to nuclear weapons, and had spent a substantial part of his
"Wars always invigorated Shanghai, quickened the pulse of its congested streets. Even the corpses in the gutters seemed livelier."I hated this book. I thought to abandon it so many and to forget about its existence. Every page was a chore to read, thank god for the short chapters because sometimes I could not stomach more than one. Why, you might wonder I gave four stars to a novel that caused me so much pain? The thing with good books is that I do not have to enjoy reading them to appreciate
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