Description

'Miracles of Existence' opens and closes in Shanghai, the town where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening sections Ballard produces a memoir that's both an enthralling story and an in depth study of the activities which may greatly affect his work. You start with his early-childhood spent exploring the lively environments of pre-war Shanghai, Ballard maps the span of his amazing life in the deprivations and unforeseen liberties of the Lunghua Camping to his go back to an England literally and emotionally impaired by war. He examines his future participation in the dramatic cultural changes of the 1960s, and the modifications alive following a early death of his spouse.