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Occupied City

By David Peace

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780571232024

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Tokyo Trilogy, Volume 2

'We all know what this could be: we know it could be dysentery, we know it could be typhoid. In the "Occupied City", we all know what this could mean -' Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He s Continue

Tokyo Trilogy, Volume 2

'We all know what this could be: we know it could be dysentery, we know it could be typhoid. In the "Occupied City", we all know what this could mean -' Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities, to treat anyone who might have been exposed. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Within minutes twelve of them are dead, the other four unconscious. The man disappears along with some, but not all, of the bank's money. And so begins the biggest manhunt in Japanese history. In "Occupied City", David Peace dramatises and explores the rumours of complicity, conspiracy and cover-up that surround the chilling case of the Teikoku Bank Massacre: of the man who was convicted of the crime, of the legacy of biological warfare programmes, and of the victims and survivors themselves. The second part of his acclaimed "Tokyo Trilogy" - and an extraordinary picture of a city in mourning - "Occupied City" is further evidence of a singular and formidable novelist.

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  • Occupied City by David Peace

    A neon city. An urban catwalk of bizarre fashions and manga pixies with eyes like dinner plates. Tokyo: stamping ground of Godzilla, land of flat-pack commuters. A cultural fracture in Ozu's Tokyo Story; a postmodern glitch in fiction by David Mitche ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Occupied City by David Peace

    The second part of David Peace's planned Tokyo trilogy, Occupied City is based on the true story of the Teikoku Bank Massacre. In 1948, a well-groomed man walked into a bank at the close of business and explained he had been sent to inoculate all emp ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 288 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0571232027
  • ISBN-13: 9780571232024
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Pub date: Aug 06, 2009
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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