![]() ![]() I seem to have been reading a fair bit about Shanghai recently, including the first good Tintin book, set a few years earlier. Long, long ago, I saw the Spielberg film of the book (and have almost completely forgotten it), and much more recently I read the author's autobiography which covers much of the same ground (with the important difference that he actually spent his period of internment with his parents rather than separated from them). Ballards semi-autobiographical 1984 novel of the same name. Analyzes how jim, the third person narrator of the novel, is separated from his parents when the japanese. Empire of the Sun is a 1987 American epic coming-of-age war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Tom Stoppard, based on J. The descriptions are vivid and visceral, and the human interactions in desperate circumstances all too plausible. Opines that empire of the sun is a brilliant book. ![]() It's brutal and awful, yet the protagonist's innocence gives the whole narrative a vivid foundation, slightly distanced from the awful world of the adults, yet focused on important details like how many maggots you can eat to remain healthy. NwhyteThis is a tremendous novel, based of course on real life, about the experiences of a boy surviving Shanghai during the Japanese occupation if the Second World War. ![]()
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