An edition of Empire of the Sun (1984)

Empire of the Sun

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An edition of Empire of the Sun (1984)

Empire of the Sun

  • 3.8 (5 ratings) ·
  • 57 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 14 Have read

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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Harper Perennial
Pages
352

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Library of Congress
PR6052.A46

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL7264412M
ISBN 10
0007221525
ISBN 13
9780007221523
LibraryThing
7150
Goodreads
585608

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL261889W

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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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