{"product_id":"9780008329754","title":"Empire of the Sun (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) -- Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp.             One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.           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 and survival, of internment camps and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpercollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48379067859179,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":28.53,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780008329754-1.jpg?v=1785757870","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780008329754","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}