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Le 5mars 1984, suite à l'annonce d'un terrible plan de restructuration des houillères britanniques, les mineurs du Yorkshire se mettent en grève. Le conflit qui s'amorce durera un an et sera le plus violent de l'après-guerre. Face au Syndicat national des mineurs d'Arthur Scargill, qui tente de mobiliser l'ensemble des forces syndicales, Margaret Thatcher, au pouvolir depuis cinq ans, n'a pas l'intention de subir le sort de son prédécesseur conservateur poussé vers la sortie par la grève de 1974. Décidé à briser le mouvement à tout prix, le gouvernement ne recule devant rien. Cette guerre totale plongera le nord industriel dans le désespoir et marquera l'entrée de la Grande-Bretagne dans l'ère du libéralisme triomphant.
David Peace, auteur de la tétralogie noire du Yorkshire, a quitté le Royaume-Uni après la victoire de John Major en 1992 et vit à Tokyo.
"L'impression globale est saisissante." (Les Inrockuptibles) "Le récit hallucinatoire d'une guerre civile." (Télérama)
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The Occupation had a hangover, but still the Occupation went to work. Tokyo, July 1949, President Shimoyama, Head of the National Railways of Japan, goes missing just a day after serving notice of 30,000 job losses. In the midst of the US Occupation, against the backdrop of widespread social, political and economic reforms - as tensions and confusion reign - American Detective Harry Sweeney leads the missing person''s investigation for General MacArthur''s GHQ. Some men go mad, some men go missing . Fifteen years later and Tokyo is booming. As the city prepares for the 1964 Olympics and the global spotlight, Hideki Murota, a former policeman during the Occupation period, and now a private investigator, is given a case which forces him to go back to confront a time, a place and a crime he''s been hiding from for the past fifteen years. Some men do both . Over twenty years later, in the autumn and winter of 1988, as the Emperor Showa is dying, Donald Reichenbach, an aging American, eking out a living teaching and translating, sits drinking by the Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, knowing the final reckoning of the greatest mystery of the Showa Era is down to him.
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Ryuosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers. He lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period, including the devastating 1923 earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927. Inpsired by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned an extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act of writing itself, and the role of the artist, both in public and private life, in times which darkly mirror our own.
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It's August 1946--one year after the Japanese surrender--and women are turning up dead all over Tokyo. Detective Minami of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police--irreverent, angry, despairing--goes on the hunt for a killer known as the Japanese Bluebeard--a decorated former Imperial soldier who raped and murdered at least ten women amidst the turmoil of post-war Tokyo. As he undertakes the case, Minami is haunted by his own memories of atrocities that he can no longer explain or forgive. Unblinking in its vision of a nation in a chaotic, hellish period in its history, Tokyo Year Zero is a darkly lyrical and stunningly original crime novel.
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