Tokyo Year Zero

Book One of the Tokyo Trilogy

Reeks: Tokyo Trilogy

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  • 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.
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