![]() Jim escapes and takes shelter in an abandoned sports stadium, witnessing the white flash of the atom bomb dropping on Nagasaki. With American forces approaching, the remaining prisoners are forced on a death march to Nantao. As the Japanese military campaign collapses, food supplies run short and Jim nearly starves to death. When food supplies run out, Jim and Basie surrender to the Japanese army and are sent to an internment camp for three years. He becomes a vagrant, living in abandoned mansions and surviving on tinned food, befriending Basie, an American racketeer who attempts to sell him to the Japanese. After the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1942, the Japanese invade Shanghai, and his parents are sent to an internment camp. Jim, a young English boy lives a life of luxury with his parents in the British expatriate settlement in Shanghai. ![]() Ballard’s 1984 autobiographical novel about growing up in Shanghai during World War II and being interned in a prisoner-of-war. ![]()
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