Empire Of the Sun
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$16.99 |
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1/06/2008 |
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B Format Paperback
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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.
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Crash
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Hello America
Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth–century America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a small group of European explorers returns to the deserted continent. But America is unrecognisable – the Bering Strait has been dammed and the whole continent has become a...
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Concrete Island
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