The classic heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester 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 & survival of internment camps & 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 This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith Rivka Galchen Hari Kunzru & Martin Amis) & br&-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood