Occupied City
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A man knocks on the door of a Tokyo Bank in January 1948. The man speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he has been sent by Occupation authorities to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into 16 teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink the liquid. Within minutes twelve are dead, the other four unconscious. The doctor disappears along with Y160,000. But he leaves another Y350,000 untouched. So begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history., for the 'Teigin Killer'. In Occupied City, David Peace explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround this chilling case, which would see Hirasawa Sadamichi, a 57-year-old artist, spend forty years of his life on death row. What emerges is a picture of a city under siege and in mourning. A city with no centre and no soul. Occupied City is the most exceptional novel so far by a writer who continues to astonish as a contemporary stylist of incomparable gifts.
Author: David Peace (Author)
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 152mm x 232mm, 380 g
Published: 2009, Faber & Faber, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
A man knocks on the door of a Tokyo Bank in January 1948. The man speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he has been sent by Occupation authorities to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into 16 teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink the liquid. Within minutes twelve are dead, the other four unconscious. The doctor disappears along with Y160,000. But he leaves another Y350,000 untouched. So begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history., for the 'Teigin Killer'. In Occupied City, David Peace explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround this chilling case, which would see Hirasawa Sadamichi, a 57-year-old artist, spend forty years of his life on death row. What emerges is a picture of a city under siege and in mourning. A city with no centre and no soul. Occupied City is the most exceptional novel so far by a writer who continues to astonish as a contemporary stylist of incomparable gifts.
Occupied City