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The year is 1941, the world is thundering with war, and a great city has been struck by the fires of hatred and destruction. An English schoolboy is separated from his parents and is forced into the infamous concentration camp, Laughua. For three years he fights for survival and, near the end of his imprisonment, witnesses the bombing of Nagasaki.
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* No.17 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * 'One of the brightest stars in post-war fiction' -- Kingsley Amis * 'There are those (I am among them) who would back Ballard as Britain's number one living novelist' -- John Sutherland, Sunday Times * 'This novel, with its brilliant descriptions of an inundated London and an ecology reverting to the Triassic, gained Ballard acceptance as a major author' -- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
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"An outstanding novel...a classic adventure story."
--"The New York Times"
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0007268408
- ISBN 13 9780007268405
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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