Author: Peace, David
Title: Occupied city
Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
Description: 275 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number: PR6066 E116 O25 2010
Bibliography: p. 273-274
Note(s): On January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. He explains that there has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, 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. Each voice enlarges and deepens the portrait of a city and a people making their way out of a war-induced hell. First published: London: Faber and Faber, 2009
Subject(s):
- Hirasawa, Sadamichi, 1892-1987 -- Fiction
- Criminals -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
- Serial murders -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Fiction
- Bank robberies -- Fiction
- Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
Review(s):
- Morris, Gregory L. "Occupied City." Magill Book Reviews (May 2010)
- JUSTIN, CARTWRIGHT. "Tokyo Vice." New York Times Book Review (March 21, 2010): 18
- Walden, George. "Capital offences." New Statesman 138, no. 4962 (August 17, 2009): 44-45
Read: August 31, 2010