by J.G.Ballard (Author)
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. 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: (Reissue)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0007268408
ISBN 13: 9780007268405