The Kindness of Women

Name: The Kindness of Women
Rating: 4.1 (252 reviews)
Author: J G Ballard

Authors: J G Ballard
Series: Book 2 in the Empire of the Sun series
Type: Novel
Genres: Historical
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Rating: 4.1 based on 252 reviews
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Print length: 343 pages (Hardcover)

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About the book

In this sequel to "Empire of the Sun", the author places the traumatic events described in that novel within the context of a lifetime. Jim, the narrator, returns to England after the war, and trains as a medical student at Cambridge, and as an RAF pilot in Canada.

Praise for this book:

"The book is full of mesmerising writing, classic examples of the Ballard style, paragraphs and pages that disturb and enthral... A force is operating in this astonishing book which is hard to resist." - William Boyd

About the author

J G Ballard

J.G. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, China where his father was a businessman. After the attack on Pearl Harbour, Ballard and his family were placed in a civilian prison camp. They returned ...