Empire of the Sun
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Word Count
72,000 words, Guess
Page Count
288 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7948103M
- ISBN-139780743265232
- ISBN-100743265238
- OCLC Control Number58432359
- OCLC Control Numberempiresun00ball_619
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005278651
- LibraryThing7150
- Goodreads56674
Classifications
- LCCPR6052.A46 E45 2005
Description
A fictionalized account of the author's experiences as a boy in Shanghai, China, during the Second World War, and in Lunghua C.A.C. (Civilian Assembly Centre), where he was interned from 1942 to 1945.
First Sentence
WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.
Excerpt
WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.
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