In this highly autobiographical novel, the protagonist, a boy named Jim, is interred in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in China during World War II--separated from his parents, and forced to struggle for survival in an alien world. The story culminates in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: Peoples + Cultures, Literary Genres + Types of Novels, Stages of Life, General, War + Military
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Pages: 279
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 1, 2005
- Date Published: March 1, 2005
- Author: J.G. Ballard