{
"item_title" : "Tokyo Year Zero",
"item_author" : [" David Peace "],
"item_description" : "Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic ... exhilarating crime novel (The New York Times Book Review). 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.",
"item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/30/727/650/0307276503_b.jpg",
"price_data" : {
"retail_price" : "24.00", "online_price" : "24.00", "our_price" : "24.00", "club_price" : "24.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : ""
}
}
Overview
Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a "brilliant, perplexing, claustrophobic ... exhilarating" crime novel (The New York Times Book Review).
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.
Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780307276506
- ISBN-10: 0307276503
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: August 2008
- Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.26 x 0.82 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.62 pounds
- Page Count: 368
Related Categories
