The heartrending story of British boy Jimâs four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the second world war. Filmed by Steven Spielberg.Now available for the first time on CD.
Based on J. G. Ballardâs own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boyâs life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai â 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 authorâs 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.