by David Peace · RESERVOIR BOOKS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439728207
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«Ciudad ocupada» is the second novel in David Peace's Tokyo Trilogy, published by Reservoir Books in hardcover (360 pages, in Spanish).
In 1948 Tokyo, a fake public health official poisons bank employees and disappears with the money, in a crime inspired by the Teikoku Bank massacre. The story is built through several voices: a survivor tormented by guilt, a journalist who infiltrates as a doctor to get close to a victim, and a detective obsessed with the American occupiers, while the city rebuilds its daily life among the rubble.
Second installment of the Tokyo Trilogy, after «Tokio año cero».
Recommended for readers of crime and historical fiction seeking a gritty setting in postwar Japan.
David Peace is an English writer. Best known for his UK-set novels Red Riding Quartet (1999–2002), GB84 (2004), The Damned Utd (2006), and Red or Dead (2013), Peace was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta in their 2003 list. His books often deal with themes of mental breakdown or derangement in the face of extreme circumstances. In an interview with David Mitchell, he stated: "I was drawn to writing about individuals and societies in moments that are often extreme, and often at times of defeat, be they personal or broader, or both. I believe that in such moments, during such times, in how we react and how we live, we learn who we truly are, for better or worse."
