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![]() | Occupied City (2009) (The second book in the Tokyo Trilogy series) A novel by David Peace |
From the author of Tokyo Year Zero ('Astounding,' Los Angeles Times Book Review), a fierce, exquisitely dark novel that returns us to post-World War II occupied Japan: a Rashômon-like retelling of a murder (based on an actual event), its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime.
On January 26, 1948, a man arrives at a bank in Tokyo, assigned by Occupation authorities, he explains, to treat everyone in the neighborhood who might have been exposed to dysentery. Soon after ingesting the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, the other four unconscious, and the man has fled . . .
Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks 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 its brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious work of fiction from a singular writer.
On January 26, 1948, a man arrives at a bank in Tokyo, assigned by Occupation authorities, he explains, to treat everyone in the neighborhood who might have been exposed to dysentery. Soon after ingesting the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, the other four unconscious, and the man has fled . . .
Twelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks 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 its brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, mesmerizing narrative. It is a stunningly audacious work of fiction from a singular writer.
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Hardback Editions
February 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 0-307-26375-4 / 978-0-307-26375-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 0-571-25180-3 / 978-0-571-25180-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2009 : Hardback
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 0-571-25531-0 / 978-0-571-25531-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
February 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Occupied City (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 0-307-27651-1 / 978-0-307-27651-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 0-571-24953-1 / 978-0-571-24953-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
December 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 0-571-23203-5 / 978-0-571-23203-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy 2) Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 0-571-23202-7 / 978-0-571-23202-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
August 2010 : MP3 CD
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace, TBA ISBN: 1-4417-5483-0 / 978-1-4417-5483-7 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 1-4417-5482-2 / 978-1-4417-5482-0 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 1-4417-5480-6 / 978-1-4417-5480-6 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2010 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 1-4417-5479-2 / 978-1-4417-5479-0 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
October 2010 : Unknown
| Title: Occupied City (Playaway Adult Fiction) Author(s): David Peace ISBN: 1-4417-5486-5 / 978-1-4417-5486-8 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy) Author(s): David Peace Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon More details... |
December 2009 : Kindle edition
| Title: Occupied City Author(s): David Peace Publisher: Faber and Faber Fiction Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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