{"product_id":"9780007221523","title":"Empire of the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J G Ballard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895320268949,"sku":"9780007221523","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007221523_2bc671da-6ef4-4555-a83e-6de33f256581.jpg?v=1776888565","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007221523","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}