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Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths Read More..

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Description	Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is derived from the etymology of the name for Japan.Ballard later wrote of his experiences in China as a boy and the making of the film of the same name in his autobiography Miracles of Life.
Description	Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is derived from the etymology of the name for Japan.Ballard later wrote of his experiences in China as a boy and the making of the film of the same name in his autobiography Miracles of Life.

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Name	Empire of the Sun
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Authors	J. G. Ballard
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Genre	Autobiographical , War novel
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	278 pp (first edition, hardback)
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Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Isbn	0-575-03483-1
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Oclc	260149687
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Publisher	Gollancz
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