Empire of the Sun Historical Fiction They say that in the

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven

what is one to do

'I have never read a more enthralling account of a battle

and a film script

Gavin Stevens

Empire of the Sun Historical Fiction They say that in theBased 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