Empire of the Sun Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2006) the coming of slavery and

the coming of slavery and the subsequent legacy of violence and mistrust

Anthony Bolton

a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene

Through the tide of hormones surging within my body

Empire of the Sun Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2006) the coming of slavery andThe classic, heartrending story of a British boys 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. Ballards own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boys 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