{"product_id":"9780007273348","title":"Empire of the Sun: Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe heartrending story of British boy Jim’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.\u003cbr\u003eNow available for the first time on CD.\u003c\/p\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 historical fiction, penned by the Sunday Times bestselling author, J. G. Ballard, is a top pick among literary winners. The military undertones in the narrative add a layer of authenticity to the harrowing tale of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of Russell Hoban (The Bat Tattoo), Cormac Mccarthy (All the Pretty Horses), Martin Amis (The Zone of Interest), Albert Camus (The Outsider), and Graham Greene (The End of the Affair).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J G Ballard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46889157230741,"sku":"9780007273348","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007273348.png?v=1777422837","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007273348","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}