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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Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
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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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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)fst01180924Places
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Empire of the sun
1991, V. Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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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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