Empire of the Sun (Empire of the Sun #1)
Author: J.G. Ballard
Desc: 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 deep 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.