A review by aleffert
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard

4.0

This is the fictionalized war memoir of famed science fiction writer J. G. Ballard. On average he's about twelve and stuck in a Japanese prison camp outside Shanghai without his parents. Everyone knows war is awful, but trust Ballard to get how frickin' weird it is and how quickly the veneer of civilization vanishes.

Apparently there's a Spielberg movie with Christian Bale. It seems like much of the book is internal monologue so I'm curious how that works.