Empire of the Sun (UK HB - INSCRIBED to his agent Maggie Hanbury)

Ballard, J. G.

ISBN 10: 0575034831 / ISBN 13: 9780575034839

Published by Gollancz, 1984

About this Item

UK hardback second impression. Important association copy, INSCRIBED by Ballard at title page to Maggie [Hanbury], his literary agent. Near fine in near fine jacket with a small Gollancz price sticker to flap instead of printed price.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1761662258540

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Empire of the Sun (UK HB - INSCRIBED to his agent Maggie Hanbury)
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575034831
• ISBN 13: 9780575034839
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 2.5W x 15.5H x 23.5D centimeters 2.5 centimeters width by 15.5 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 544 grams
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

"The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China."

Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.

Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war...and the dawn of a blighted world.

Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.

About the Author

* 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