Empire of the Sun. The Kindness of Women
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Empire of the Sun. The Kindness of Women
29.99 €
As a child, he lived through the war and transformed memories of pain into unforgettable stories. One book depicts ashen Shanghai and the horrors of a concentration camp; the other, the explosive postwar world engulfed by the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Two novels, one author, one coming-of-age story of a man and an entire century.
"Empire of the Sun" begins Jim's story. To survive, he must find the strength to confront everything that surrounds him.
Shanghai, 1941. A city captured by the Imperial Japanese Army. On streets filled with chaos and corpses, a young British boy vainly searches for his parents and simply tries to survive. Later, in a concentration camp, he becomes a metaphorical witness to the furious white flash in Nagasaki, when the bomb heralds the end of the war... and the dawn of a new, ruined world.
"The Kindness of Women" continues Jim's story. He returns to post-war England and grows up.
Jim struggles to forget his past and find inner stability. He enrolls in medical school at a Cambridge college. Later, influenced by childhood memories of kamikaze attacks and the bombings of Shanghai and Nagasaki, he trains to become a pilot in the Royal Air Force—to fight in the impending nuclear Third World War. But stability proves illusory. Jim plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, becoming an active participant in the cultural and social revolution, and attempts to understand the upheavals unfolding in the West.
Turning to the events of his own life, Ballard creates a frank, striking, and, in its most intimate moments, emotional fantasy.
"Empire of the Sun" begins Jim's story. To survive, he must find the strength to confront everything that surrounds him.
Shanghai, 1941. A city captured by the Imperial Japanese Army. On streets filled with chaos and corpses, a young British boy vainly searches for his parents and simply tries to survive. Later, in a concentration camp, he becomes a metaphorical witness to the furious white flash in Nagasaki, when the bomb heralds the end of the war... and the dawn of a new, ruined world.
"The Kindness of Women" continues Jim's story. He returns to post-war England and grows up.
Jim struggles to forget his past and find inner stability. He enrolls in medical school at a Cambridge college. Later, influenced by childhood memories of kamikaze attacks and the bombings of Shanghai and Nagasaki, he trains to become a pilot in the Royal Air Force—to fight in the impending nuclear Third World War. But stability proves illusory. Jim plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, becoming an active participant in the cultural and social revolution, and attempts to understand the upheavals unfolding in the West.
Turning to the events of his own life, Ballard creates a frank, striking, and, in its most intimate moments, emotional fantasy.
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