Together we waited at the tables where Americans had once sipped their bourbons. Others had strapped tennis rackets, cricket bats and fishing rods to their luggage. Some of the men carried nothing apart from the clothes they were wearing, confident that the war would be over within days. There we found a huge press of people, mostly British, sitting with their suitcases around the swimming pool, many of the women in their fur coats. Our assembly point was the city's American Club.
In March 1943, my parents, four-year- old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945. Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent.īut the cotton works were my father's responsibility and duty then counted for something. Classic: Christian Bale plays a character based on Ballard in Empire of the Sun More tracks like Empire of the Sun, By J.Playlists containing Empire of the Sun, By J.Users who reposted Empire of the Sun, By J.Users who like Empire of the Sun, By J.Genre Modern and contemporary fiction (post c. Rooted as it is in the author’s own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches.
The heartrending story of British boy Jim’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war.
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