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Empire of the Sun

J. G. Ballard

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23

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#98 of 8,085 books · #56 in Fiction

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1984). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 3 other awards.

Jim, an eleven-year-old British schoolboy living in Shanghai in 1941, must learn to survive on his own when he is separated from his parents and sent to a Japanese prison camp.

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Publisher
Gollancz
ISBN-13
9780743265232
Genre
Fiction
Topics
WarSurvivalComing of age

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