Empire of the Sun

This novel, written by James G Ballard in 1984, is a re-imagining of his own experience as a young boy captured by the Japanese Army during the Second World War, when they invaded Shanghai in 1941. He was imprisoned in one of their many camps for approximately two years.

J G Ballard aged 50 when he wrote Empire of the Sun

This is a street similar to the one J G Ballard lived on with his parents in Shanghai