empire of the sun

     

Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J. G. Ballar which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Although like Ballard's earlier short story, "The Dead Time," published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future, it is essentially fiction, like the earlier story it draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II.

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  • This Spielberg epic set in WWII China was one of Ben Stiller's first films
  • It's J.G. Ballard's saga of a British boy separated from his parents & interned in a Japanese prison camp during WWII
  • 13-year-old Christian Bale starred in this J.G. Ballard tale about a young prisoner in WWII China
  • "Helios' Kingdom"

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