TOKYO YEAR ZERO by David Peace - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
Sept. 2007 NY: Knopf. First edition, first printing, mint, new/unread in a flawless dustjacket, signed by the author.
From “British crime fiction’s most exciting new voice in decades” (GQ)
comes an electrifying novel that revisits a series of shocking crimes
committed in post–World War II, bombed-out, American-occupied Tokyo.
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 Zero
tells 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—Tokyo Year Zero is unforgettable, a darkly lyrical and stunningly original crime novel.
