EPISODE · May 1, 2026 · 3 MIN
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
from Listen to Trending Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Westerns & War · host Yesenia Doyle
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150668 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire of the Sun Author: J. G. Ballard Narrator: Jeremy Irons Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 15, 1987 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.1 of Total 10 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China. 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 boy 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 war...and 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.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/150668 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Empire of the Sun Author: J. G. Ballard Narrator: Jeremy Irons Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 9 minutes Release date: December 15, 1987 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.32 of Total 31 Ratings of Narrator: 4.1 of Total 10 Genres: Westerns & War Publisher's Summary: The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China. 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 boy 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 war...and 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.
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