Empire of the SunFrom the master of dystopia comes his heartrending story of a British boys four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. 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, starvation, and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of