Journal Entry 1 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Thursday, February 25, 2010

Description from Amazon
The heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai -- a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of internment camps and death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in own time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged. 

Journal Entry 2 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Friday, March 05, 2010

Enjoyed reading this quite chilling account of the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, at long last, only knew it from the movie until now. 

Journal Entry 3 by Cassiopaeia from Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Sunday, March 14, 2010

Forgot to set this travelling, on the way last week to Camis for the April Birthday Exchange. 

Journal Entry 4 by camis at Tharston, Norfolk United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Received safely, thanks. Sorry for delay in journalling!