Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by J G Ballard which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize Made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, it tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in абьзжChina Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him Shanghai, 1941 - a city aflame from the fateful torch of Pearl Harbor In streets full of chaos and corpses, a young British bаврмзoy searches in vain for his parents Imprisoned in a Japanese concentration camp, he is witness to the fierce white flash of Nagasaki, as the bomb bellows the end of the warand the dawn of a blighted world Ballard's enduring novel of war and deprivation, internment camps and death marches, and starvation and survival is an honest coming-of-age tale set in a world thrown utterly out of joint.