Empire of the Sun

Фотографии Empire of the Sun

Описание Empire of the Sun

Джеймс Баллард, написавший несколько книг и известный всему миру как фантаст, прежде всего знаменит автобиографическим романом "Империя Солнца" о нескольких годах своей мальчишечьей жизни в концентрационном лагере в Китае в период японской оккупации в годы Второй мировой войны. Эта правдивая и жестокая история о выживании в условиях голода, смертей и жестокости людей по отношению друг к другу не содержит моральных оценок и потрясает той непосредственностью, с которой одиннадцатилетний Джим приспосабливается к войне.
Книга на английском языке.
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.
Based on J. G. 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. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint.
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.
This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard’s works, featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Adam Thirlwell, Hari Kunzru, James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.

Содержание Empire of the Sun

PART I
The Eve of Pearl Harbor
Beggars and Acrobats
The Abandoned Aerodrome
The Attack on the Petrel
Escape from the Hospital
The Youth with the Knife
The Drained Swimming-Pool
Picnic Time
An End to Kindness
The Stranded Freighter
Frank and Basie
Dance Music
The Open-Air Cinema
American Aircraft
On their Way to the Camps
The Water Ration
A Landscape of Airfields
Vagrants
The Runway
PART II
Lunghua Camp
The Cubicle
The University of Life
The Air Raid
The Hospital
The Cemetery Garden
The Lunghua Sophomores
The Execution
An Escape
The March to Nantao
The Olympic Stadium
The Empire of the Sun
PART III
The Eurasian
The Kamikaze Pilot
The Refrigerator in the Sky
Lieutenant Price
The Flies
A Reserved Room
The Road to Shanghai
The Bandits
The Fallen Airmen
Rescue Mission
PART IV
The Terrible City
An Investigative Spirit: Travis Elborough Talks to J. G.
Ballard
The End of My War

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