Occupied City

Author:   David Peace
Publisher:   Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN:  

9780307263759


Pages:   275
Publication Date:   02 February 2010
Format:   Undefined
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A fierce, exquisitely dark novel that plunges us into post-World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon -like retelling of a mass poisoning (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime.
On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the official has fled . . .
Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks, for all the victims, from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of one of the case detectives, the desperate letters of an American occupier, the testimony of a traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, an occult detective, a Soviet soldier, a well-known painter. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell.
Occupied City immerses us in an extreme time and place with a brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious work of fiction from a singular writer.

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Author:   David Peace
Publisher:   Knopf Publishing Group
Imprint:   Knopf Publishing Group
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780307263759


ISBN 10:   0307263754
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   02 February 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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An extraordinary and highly original crime novel . . . This is a truly remarkable work. It is hugely daring, utterly irresistible, deeply serious and unlike anything I have ever read. <br> -- New York Times Book Review <br> <br> Hypnotic postmodern noir of almost unrivaled fury . . . Expect to be enthralled and maybe amazed . . . Occupied City takes no prisoners . . . Hardly any writer can invoke T. S. Eliot and The Waste Land and expect to get away with it, but Peace does. He's an original and ambitious writer. <br>-- Los Angeles Times Book Review<br> <br> Like the novels of Stieg Larsson, Peace's books are fueled by political passion . . . Occupied City [is] genuinely hypnotic. <br>-- Harper's <br> This is a savagely beautiful, richly startling novel . . . The raw beauty of Peace's language envelops you . . . Peace writes brilliantly of shattered roads, shattered lives, a fragmenting self, fragmenting society . . . He is an astonishing storyteller. <br>-- The Times


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