{"product_id":"empire-of-sun-pb-j-g-ballard-9780007221523","title":"EMPIRE OF SUN PB","description":"The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.Based on J. G. 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. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.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.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.","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49486681047328,"sku":"9780007221523","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780007221523.jpg?v=1785314122","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/empire-of-sun-pb-j-g-ballard-9780007221523","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}