In the confusion and chaos after this attack, Jim gets separated from his parents and spends several days in Shanghai looking for them and a place to stay. Soon after the Pearl Harbor attack, the Japanese open fire in Shanghai.
He admires the Japanese soldiers’ bravery and has a strong fascination with fighter planes. Jim, however, is not afraid of the war, but interested in it. Shanghai is already occupied by Japanese forces, concerning many people, including Jim’s parents, about escalating violence. Jim is the only child of a wealthy British couple living in Shanghai for business reasons. 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.It begins on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attacks in 1941. Read more 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. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. 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.
Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Description for EMPIRE OF THE SUN Paperback.
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