The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.
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.
This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith, Rivka Galchen, Hari Kunzru and Martin Amis) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.
 
 
 
 



        

            
            

                
Publisher
                
Harper Perennial (28 Aug. 2014)
            
            
            

                
Paperback
                
336 pages
            
            
            

                
Dimensions
                
13 x 2.13 x 19.71 cm
            
            
            

                
Language
                
English
            
            
            

                
ISBN-10
                
0007221525
            
            
            

                
ISBN-13
                
978-0007221523
            
            
        

         





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