J. G. Ballard

Empire of the Sun (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Extraordinary' Angela Carter 'One of the great war novels of the 20th century' William Boyd 'A remarkable journey' Sunday Times

The heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007283132
• Artikelnr.: 37993575

Autorenporträt

J. G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. He published his first novel, The Drowned World, in 1961. His 1984 bestseller Empire of the Sun won the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His memoir Miracles of Life was published in 2008. J. G. Ballard died in 2009.