Author

Publication

2007 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

88,750 words, Guess

Page Count

355 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing3000871
  • Goodreads755204

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6066.E116 T67 2007

Description

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 lyrical and stunningly original crime novel.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Subjects

Topics

PoliceMysteryFictionSerial murdersTokyo (Japan) -- FictionDetective and mystery storiesPolice -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • Tokyo year zeroAlfred A. Knopf2007

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