What is the author's style in Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard?

The novel’s prose is at once vivid, but not impassioned. Scenes are described in incredible detail, familiarizing the reader with the physical geography of Shanghai and its environs. The events of the novel are told matter-of-factly, without emotion or judgment, as if they were ordinary events. It is, in fact, this ordinary presentation of events that best shows the horrors of war because it conveys the senselessness and meaninglessness of so many of the deaths that occurred as a result.