![]() ![]() The author does an excellent job of relating the conditions through the eyes of a child and how the sickness, death and violence kept all the prisoners on the brink of madness. During the chaos, he becomes separated from his parents and spends the duration of the war on his own.Įventually imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, Jim adapts to a life of starvation and violence, surviving by scheming, stealing and knowing who to ingratiate himself to. ![]() It tells the story of Jim, the young son of British ex-pats, who was eleven when the Japanese occupied Shanghai. Ballard was originally published in 1984. Loosely based on his own experiences during World War II, Empire of the Sun by J. ![]()
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