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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, 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.Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.
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Empire of the sun, James Graham Ballard
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1985
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- Titre
- Empire of the sun
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- James Graham Ballard
- Éditeur
- Panther
- Publié
- 1985
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN10
- 0708982700
- ISBN13
- 9780708982709
- Séries
- Empire du Soleil
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Romans historiques, Famille, Classiques, Amitié, États-Unis, Prose de guerre, Guerres, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Japon, Littérature anglaise, Parentalité, Adapté au cinéma, Chine, Jeunes, Enfance, Mères, Enquête
- Première publication
- 1984
- Titre original
- Empire of the Sun
- Évaluation
- 4 sur 5
- Description
- The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1941 -- a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, 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.Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.