- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, Modern Literature
The sequel to "Empire of the Sun", this story follows the travels of Jim, as he leaves Shanghai after the war and tries to settle firstly in England and then Canada. Shattered by personal tragedy, he throws himself into the maelstrom of the 1960s, searching for peace of mind.
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- Author
- J. G. Ballard
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 343
- Publisher
- Picador, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Flamingo
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780002237710
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“Every afternoon in Shanghai during the summer of 1937 I rode down to the Bund to see if the war had begun.”
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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