Description
Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a "brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic ... exhilarating" crime novel (The New York Times Book Review).
It's August 1946--one year after the Japanese surrender--and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police--irreverent, angry, despairing--goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard--a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the case, Minami is haunted by his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive.
Author: David Peace
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 08/12/2008
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.26w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780307276506
ISBN10: 0307276503
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Historical
- Fiction | Crime
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | International Crime & Mystery
About the Author
David Peace is the author of The Red Riding Quartet, GB84, and The Damned Utd. He was chosen as one of Granta's 2003 Best Young British Novelists, and has received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the French Grand Prix de Roman Noir for Best Foreign Novel. Born and raised in Yorkshire, he has lived in Tokyo since 1994.