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An edition of Empire of the Sun (1984)

Empire of the sun

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  • ★★★★ 4.1 (7 ratings)
  • 65 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 17 Have read

Shanghai, 1941 - a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbour. In streets full of chaos and corpses, an eleven-year-old British boy, Jim, searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he faces the harsh realities of war and learns important lessons about human nature. 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. In this coming-of-age tale, Jim lets go of his innocent ideas about war and heroism and in the process reveals the meaning of courage, tenacity, and faith in the endurance of the human spirit.

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V. Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Language
English
Pages
278

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Subjects

Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Boys, History, Bildungsromans, Engels, British, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Shanghai (china), fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, media tie-in, Garçons, Romans, nouvelles, Chang pian xiao shuo, Fiction, war & military, China, fiction, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924

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Shanghai (China), Shanghai, China

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1991, V. Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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1984, Simon and Schuster
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London

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6052.A46 E45x 1984b, PR6052 B189 E55 1985 F, PR6052.A46

The Physical Object

Pagination
278 p. ;
Number of pages
278

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL20076197M
Internet Archive
empiredusoleilro0000ball
ISBN 10
0575034831
LCCN
85672818
OCLC/WorldCat
11163217
LibraryThing
7150
Wikidata
Q126544169
Goodreads
831906

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL261889W

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Work Description

A fictionalized account of the author's experiences as a boy in Shanghai, China, during the Second World War, and in Lunghua C.A.C. (Civilian Assembly Centre), where he was interned from 1942 to 1945.

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WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.
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