9780007273348_

The heartrending story of British boy Jims four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.
Now available for the first time on CD.

Based on J. G. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boys 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 authors 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.

(*_*)9780007273348_

The heartrending story of British boy Jims four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.
Now available for the first time on CD.

Rooted as it is in the authors 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 historical fiction, penned by the Sunday Times bestselling author, J. G. Ballard, is a top pick among literary winners. The military undertones in the narrative add a layer of authenticity to the harrowing tale of survival.

For fans of Cormac Mccarthy (Stella Maris), Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens Of Titan), Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca), Joseph Heller (Catch-22), and J. D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye).

...(*_*)9780007273348_

The heartrending story of British boy Jims four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.
Now available for the first time on CD.

Rooted as it is in the authors 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.

For fans of Russell Hoban (The Bat Tattoo), Cormac Mccarthy (All the Pretty Horses), Martin Amis (The Zone of Interest), Albert Camus (The Outsider), and Graham Greene (The Quiet American).

...(*_*)9780007273348_

The heartrending story of British boy Jim’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.
nNow available for the first time on CD.

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.

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