Empire of the Sun

Synopsis

The heartrending story of a british boy’s four year ordeal in a japanese prison camp during the second world war. 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.