Empire Of The Sun

by Ballard, J. G.

• ISBN13: 9780743265232
• ISBN10: 0743265238
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-07
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

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.

Author Biography

J.G. Ballard (1930–2009) was the author of numerous books, including Concrete Island, The Kindness of Women, and Crash. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology.

Table of Contents

ONE
1 THE EVE OF PEARL HARBOR	3	(8)
2 BEGGARS AND ACROBATS	11	(6)
3 THE ABANDONED AERODROME	17	(8)
4 THE ATTACK ON THE PETREL	25	(9)
5 ESCAPE FROM THE HOSPITAL	34	(5)
6 THE YOUTH WITH THE KNIFE	39	(6)
7 THE DRAINED SWIMMING POOL	45	(8)
8 PICNIC TIME	53	(6)
9 AN END TO KINDNESS	59	(4)
10 THE STRANDED FREIGHTER	63	(6)
11 FRANK AND BASIE	69	(6)
12 DANCE MUSIC	75	(6)
13 THE OPEN-AIR CINEMA	81	(6)
14 AMERICAN AIRCRAFT	87	(5)
15 ON THE WAY TO THE CAMPS	92	(4)
16 THE WATER RATION	96	(9)
17 A LANDSCAPE OF AIRFIELDS	105	(8)
18 VAGRANTS	113	(7)
19 THE RUNWAY	120	(7)
TWO
20 LUNGHUA CAMP	127	(7)
21 THE CUBICLE	134	(5)
22 THE UNIVERSITY OF LIFE	139	(7)
23 THE AIR RAID	146	(7)
24 THE HOSPITAL	153	(6)
25 THE CEMETERY GARDEN	159	(8)
26 THE LUNGHUA SOPHOMORES	167	(7)
27 THE EXECUTION	174	(6)
28 AN ESCAPE	180	(9)
29 THE MARCH TO NANTAO	189	(9)
30 THE OLYMPIC STADIUM	198	(7)
31 THE EMPIRE OF THE SUN	205	(10)
THREE
32 THE EURASIAN	215	(5)
33 THE KAMIKAZE PILOT	220	(4)
34 THE REFRIGERATOR IN THE SKY	224	(5)
35 LIEUTENANT PRICE	229	(9)
36 THE FLIES	238	(4)
37 A RESERVED ROOM	242	(5)
38 THE ROAD TO SHANGHAI	247	(6)
39 THE BANDITS	253	(10)
40 THE FALLEN AIRMEN	263	(6)
41 RESCUE MISSION	269	(5)
42 THE TERRIBLE CITY	274