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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.
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Empire of the sun, James Graham Ballard
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- Pubblicato
- 1985
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- Titolo
- Empire of the sun
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- James Graham Ballard
- Editore
- Panther
- Pubblicato
- 1985
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 528
- ISBN10
- 0708982700
- ISBN13
- 9780708982709
- Serie
- Impero del Sole
- Tag
- Narrativa, Tema stórico, Prosa storica, Famiglia, Classici, Amicizia, USA, Prosa di guerra, Guerre, Seconda guerra mondiale, Giappone, Letteratura inglese, Genitorialità, Adattato in un film, Cina, Gioventù, Infanzia, Mamme, Indagine
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1984
- Titolo originale
- Empire of the Sun
- Valutazione
- 4 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.