Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near …
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Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is derived from the etymology of the name for Japan. Ballard later wrote of his experiences in China as a boy and the making of the film of the same name in his autobiography Miracles of Life.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 7150
- BNF ID:
- 13328613f
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Empire of the Sun
278 pages
English language
Published Sept. 13, 1984 by Gollancz.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-575-03483-9Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 831906
Empire of the Sun
352 pages
English language
Published Feb. 20, 2006
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-722152-3Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 585608
Empire of the Sun (Panther Books)
English language
Published 1990
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- 978-0-586-06430-6Copied ISBN!
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