Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)

Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy 1)

by David Peace (Author)

Synopsis

August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Facing the threat of a second purge, the surviving officers of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Dept, with their changed identities and false names, realise they can trust no one, least of all each other. Meanwhile another war is breaking out, as different ethnic groups fight for control of the city's black markets. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, "Tokyo Year Zero" opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Against his wishes, Detective Minami is assigned to the case, and as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realises that his own past and secrets are indelibly linked to those of the victims and their killer.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Aug 2007

ISBN 10: 0571236456
ISBN 13: 9780571236459
Book Overview: Tokyo Year Zero is part one of David Peace's 'Tokyo Trilogy', and a stunning literary thriller in its own right, from the bestselling author of GB84 and The Damned Utd.

Media Reviews
Part historical stunner, part Kurosawa crime film, an original all the way. David Peace's depiction of a war-torn metropolis both crumbling and ascendant is peerless, and the story itself is beautifully wrought. --James Ellroy Brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic. . . . Exhilarating. -- The New York Times Book Review The big post-war Japan novel, a fierce marriage of mood and narrative drive. David Peace continues to polish and advance his particular brand of literary crime fiction. --George Pelecanos Once this hellish locomotive of a book hooks onto its tracks it becomes difficult to stop. -- San Francisco Chronicle
Author Bio
The author of The Red Riding Quartet, David Peace was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2004 for his fifth novel, GB84, and his most recent novel, The Damned Utd, was described in The Times as 'probably the best novel ever written about sport'.