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Tokyo year zeroDavid Peace

Tokyo year zero

2007355 pages
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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. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a darkly…

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8 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2008
    Vintage Crime/Black Lizard · 355 pages · 9780307276506
  • Paperback · English · 2008
    Faber and Faber · 9780571239320
  • Hardcover · English · 2007
    Knopf · 368 pages · 9780307263742
  • Ebook · English · 2007
    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307267849
  • Other · English · 2010
    Blackstone Audio, Inc. · 9781441756107
  • Other · English · 2008
    Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571246236
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