Empire of the Sun (novel)

Empire of the Sun

Cover of the first edition (hardback)
Author	J. G. Ballard
Cover artist	Pat Doyle[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Autobiographical, War
Publisher	Gollancz
Publication date	13 September 1984
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	278 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	0-575-03483-1 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC	260149687
LC Class	PR6052.A46 E45x 1984b
Followed by	The Kindness of Women

Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.^[2] Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is derived from the etymology of the name for Japan.

Ballard later wrote of his experiences in China as a boy and the making of the film of the same name in his autobiography Miracles of Life.