Empire of the sun
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"WARS CAME EARLY to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund."
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351 pages
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Shanghai, 1941, is a city in turmoil as Japanese troops move in to occupy it in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. Amidst the chaos, twelve-year-old Jim searches fruitlessly for his parents before being imprisoned in an internment camp. Here he experiences a world at war - death marches, starvation and the struggle for survival [cover].
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