- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Boys, History
A fictionalized account of the author's experiences as a boy in Shanghai, China, during the Second World War, and in Lunghua C.A.C. (Civilian Assembly Centre), where he was interned from 1942 to 1945.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- J. G. Ballard
- First published
- September 12, 1994
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Flamingo, Shanghai yi wen chu ban she, Edicions 62
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- cat, Chinese, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780745157672
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“WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.”
James Graham Ballard was born and raised in the International Settlement in Shanghai, China to a chemist. In 1943 the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and Ballard's family was sent to the Lunghua Civilian Assembly Center, where they were interned for two years until the end of World War II. In 1946, Ballard went to England with his mother and sister, and stayed on in England after his mother and sister returned to China to rejoin his father. In 1949 he went to King's College, Cambridge to study medicine, but he began writing fiction and abandoned medicine in 1952 to pursue writing. In 1953 he joined the Air Force and was sent to the Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan to train. There he di
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