{"product_id":"books-empire-of-the-sun-by-j-g-ballard","title":"Empire of the Sun","description":"The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp.                                     One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.                         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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507134882065,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780008329754.jpg?v=1778121886","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-empire-of-the-sun-by-j-g-ballard","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}