{"product_id":"9780007221523","title":"Empire of the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Ballard, J. G. \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 20\/02\/2006,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780007221523,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith, Rivka Galchen, Hari Kunzru and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43332921425964,"sku":"9780007221523","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780007221523_a4287b54-64a7-4d88-84db-2d31b65e7f14.jpg?v=1759679878","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780007221523","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}