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Tokyo year zero / David Peace

By:

Peace, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books , 2008, c2007.Edition: 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edDescription: 355 p. : ill., map ; 21 cmISBN:

9780307276506

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Mystery fiction

DDC classification:

MYS PEA

LOC classification:

PR6066.E116 T67 2007

Summary: On August 15, 1946-the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender-the partially decomposed, raped, and strangled bodies of two women are found in Shiba Park. More murders will soon be uncovered: women killed in the same way, and, it becomes clear, by the same hand. Narrated by the irreverent, despairing yet determined Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police,Tokyo Year Zerotells a fictionalized story of the real-life hunt for "the Japanese Bluebeard"-a decorated Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amid the bleak turmoil of post-war Japan ("one huge sea of displaced persons . . . one minute here and one minute gone"). And it is the story of Detective Minami: chasing down, and haunted by, memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history; of the rawness of emotion left in the wake of war; and of the moral and psychological corruption engendered by its aftermath.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Mystery	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	MYS PEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		022327

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-355).

On August 15, 1946-the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender-the partially decomposed, raped, and strangled bodies of two women are found in Shiba Park. More murders will soon be uncovered: women killed in the same way, and, it becomes clear, by the same hand. Narrated by the irreverent, despairing yet determined Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police,Tokyo Year Zerotells a fictionalized story of the real-life hunt for "the Japanese Bluebeard"-a decorated Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amid the bleak turmoil of post-war Japan ("one huge sea of displaced persons . . . one minute here and one minute gone"). And it is the story of Detective Minami: chasing down, and haunted by, memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history; of the rawness of emotion left in the wake of war; and of the moral and psychological corruption engendered by its aftermath.

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