Tokyo Year Zero Book One of the Tokyo Trilogy |
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Author:
| Peace, David |
Series title: | Tokyo Trilogy Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-307-27650-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2008 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $24.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.