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Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, dopo il bombardamento giapponese di Pearl Harbor, l'undicenne Jim, protagonista del romanzo, si ritrova prima separato dalla sua famiglia a girovagare per Shanghai, poi internato in un campo di prigionia di nuovo con i genitori. In quattro anni trascorsi nel campo di Lunghua, diventa un eccezionale testimone di cosa sia davvero la guerra: una cruda e infernale realtà dove quel che conta è la lotta per la sopravvivenza. La catastrofe non è più immaginata o proiettata nel futuro, come negli altri romanzi di Ballard, bensì vissuta in prima persona, e riferita con la fedeltà e l'esattezza di un'autobiografia e con l'allucinatoria forza di un'esperienza assolutamente fuori del comune.
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- Pagine: 317
- Data di uscita: 02-04-2007
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Taking into consideration of some of his own wartime experiences, Ballard tells the story of privileged Jamie (“Jim”) Graham, a Brit living in Shanghai when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour in the Second World War. The book takes a look at the tragedy and ultimate sickness of armed conflict through t Leggi tutto
Hundreds of book were written about WWII, every one describing horrors of war and human tragedies in its own way. And yet, no matter how many of them I've read, it shocks me every time. And this heartbreaking story of a prisoner camp survivor was emotionally devastating. Author managed to show how s Leggi tutto
A few days ago, I learned a new Japanese word. Nijuuhibakusha means literally "twice radiation-sick individual", and refers to the few people who, through staggering bad luck, managed to be present both at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then at Nagasaki three days later. The article I read was an
“Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.” JG Ballard's Empire of the Sun is a compelling and engaging novel written from the perspective of a boy held prisoner by the Japanese during WWII. Really fantastic storytelling! Not sure I was Leggi tutto
This was an enjoyable read in my opinion. The plot followed the life of Jim, a young British boy living in the opening outbreak of the Japanese invasion of Shanghai and eastern China during World War II. Jim was the son of a British diplomat living in a foreign settlement sector co-oping with the Ch Leggi tutto
Re-Read 8/2/23 I don't know what it is about this novel that lets me positively want to re-read it. On the surface, it's utterly tragic and devastating. Ballard himself experienced the Japanese war camp in Shanghai for the entire span of WWII. Starvation and desperate moves to survive and the breatht Leggi tutto
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