Empire Of The Sun WW11 Japan in BEACHMERE, Queensland for sale
Wars come early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze.
So begins J.G Ballards powerful and moving new novel. Japan invaded China in 1937 and by late 1941 the European inhabitants of Shanghais internatational settlement had become almost accustomed to there life in their fragile island of neutrality,with the brutal reality of the Japanese occupation from the safety of their palatial homes and the American limousines. For eleven year old Jim, born and raised in Shanghai, This was the real war. Events in Europe, glimpsed on flickering newsreels, were as exotic and unreal as the Hollywood epics they proceded.
My home is easy to find in Caboolture South, Morayfield Rd, Church St, Investigator Drive :)
