Los Angeles Times Book Review An incredible literary achievement.Brilliant. Review Quotes A profound and moving work of the imagination. Ballards enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint. Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the war.and the dawn of a blighted world. In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British boy searches in vain for his parents. Shanghai, 1941-a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him. Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. Book Synopsis The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielbergs film, tells of a young boys struggle to survive World War II in China.
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