Tokyo Year Zero
Tokyo Year Zero
paperback
Published:
4 September, 2008
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'Brilliant.' New York Times
'Remarkable.' Irish Times
August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors.
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; 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 dead women and their killer.
'A feat of prodigious and intense imagination.' The Times
'A chilling tale of murder, corruption and post-war devastation.' Observer Books of the Year
'Part historical stunner, part Kurosawa crime film, an original all the way.' James Ellroy
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780571231997 |
| ISBN10 | 0571231993 |
| Number Of Pages | 400 |
| Item Weight | 303 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 198 x 21 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Faber & Faber |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Re-issue |
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
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Author's Bio
David Peace was born in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy Four, Nineteen Seventy Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty Three), which was adapted into a Channel 4 series; Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City, the first two parts of his Tokyo Trilogy; GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Award; The Damned Utd, made into a film starring Michael Sheen; and Red or Dead, a novel about Bill Shankly.