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Tokyo Year Zero

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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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Publisher
Knopf Books
Year
2007
ISBN-13
9780307267849
Genre
Crime & ThrillerFiction
Topics
Post-war JapanSerial murder investigationGuilt and trauma

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