Empire of the Sun

?May well be that great British novel about the last war for which we?ve had to wait forty-odd years. Significantly enough, there are no heroics ? scarcely any combatants, in fact. Only a British schoolboy lost in Shanghai when the Japanese invade, a vast company of the doomed, Shanghai itself and, [...]
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?May well be that great British novel about the last war for which we?ve had to wait forty-odd years. Significantly enough, there are no heroics ? scarcely any combatants, in fact. Only a British schoolboy lost in Shanghai when the Japanese invade, a vast company of the doomed, Shanghai itself and, in the background, history working itself out. An extraordinary achievement.?
ANGELA CARTER

?A remarkable journey into the mind of a growing boy ? horror and humanity are blended into a unique and unforgettable fiction.?
SUNDAY TIMES

?An immensely powerful novel ? in a class of its own for sheer imaginative force.?
DAILY TELEGRAPH