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ID: 83147
Title: Tokyo Year Zero
Author: David Peace
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:12:40
Language: English
Release date: 07-22-10
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Historical
Summary:
On August 15th, 1946, the first anniversary of the Japanese surrender, the partially decomposed bodies of two women are found in the ruins of Zìjìji Temple in central Tokyo. They have been raped and strangledand they are only the first. More will be found killed in the same wayand, it will become clear, by the same hand.
Narrated by the irreverent, angry, despairing yet determined Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police,Tokyo Year Zerotells the riveting, complex story of the hunt for Kodaira Yoshioknown as the Japanese Bluebearda decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of Tokyo between May 1945 and August 1946. And it is the story of Detective Minami, chasing down, and haunted by, his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive.
It is also a chilling portrait of a cityand a nationgoing through a hellish period in its history: the despair and shame of its citizens, the disintegration of the social fabric, the physical devastation of the landscape. The novel takes place in a noir, twilight world, and shows us the terrifying contrast between the polite, highly codified society of Japan and the painful rawness beneath.
A story told with demanding power, written in a telegraphic, darkly lyrical language, shot through with wry humor, unblinking in its vision of the chaos left in the wake of war and of the moral and psychological corruption it engendersTokyo Year Zerois blistering and unforgettable, a stunningly original crime novel.
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