This is the sequel to Empire of the Sun and perhaps more inspired.
Each chapter, from the time of Jamie's return to Shanghai after
prison camp to the final page and the rediscovery of his lost
childhood through the lives of his own children, is achieved
through a rolling sea of stories of love, death, travel, deviant
sex, beautiful, healing love-making, drugs and self-understanding,
all told with such honesty and writerly flair that it provides a
level of autobiography above most. JG Ballard is one of our finest
writers and this book may be his finest. Review by Mavis Cheek,
whose books include 'Three Men in a Plane' (Kirkus UK)
'This is autobiography taken to the highest reaches of fiction,
another wonderful novel of scorching power, shot through with
honesty and lyricism' Observer The Kindness of Women continues the
story of Jim, the young boy whose experiences in Japanese-occupied
Shanghai were described in Empire of the Sun. It follows his return
to post-war England, setting his childhood in the context of a
lifetime. Jim tries, and fails, to find stability as a medical
student at Cambridge, then as a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. Having
finally settled into happy family life, his world is ripped apart
by domestic tragedy. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an
instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social and
sexual revolution. We follow, in all this, the progress of a
bruised mind as it tries to make sense of the upheaval around it.
Turning conspicuously, as in Empire of the Sun, to the events of
his own life, Ballard makes of experience fiction that is frankly
startling and, at its most tender, powerfully moving. This edition
is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works, featuring
introductions from a number of his admirers (including Ali Smith,
Iain Sinclair, Martin Amis and Ned Beauman) and brand-new cover
designs from the artist Stanley Donwood.
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