For Christmas I was bought the the first two parts of David Peace's Tokyo series. I'm a fan after the Ridings series. I'm a about a third of the way through the first part Tokyo Year Zero. The novel is set in post war Tokyo and superbly conveys the hardship, poverty and lawlessness of a city all but destroyed by war. This is a crime novel that begins with the discovery of two bodies.
The story is excellent but Peace's writing style is very idiosyncratic, with the thoughts of the main character interrupting the flow of the story and sometimes the dialogue as well. The book is to hard read and sometimes you want Peace to be less clever and to just get on with his marvelous tale. Anyway I'll stick with it for now and hope that the journey is worth the effort.
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