Born in Shanghai in 1930 James Graham Ballard lived the life of a rich expat’s son until the Japanese invaded 1941. He lived in an internment camp for three years. He told fellow writer, Ian Sinclair, that he spent the first twenty years trying to forget the experience and the next twenty years trying to remember. His recollections resulted... [More]

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