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Sept. Le chiffre de l'apocalypse.
1977, l'année du Jubilé d'argent de la Reine et de l'Eventreur du Yorkshire.
Nous sommes de nouveau dans la région de Leeds, c'est l'été. Plusieurs prostituées sont assassinées ou victimes d'agressions. Lorsque le sergent Fraser est appelé sur la scène de l'un des crimes, il est pris de panique car il se trouve être l'amant d'une fille de joie de Chapeltown. Il n'est pas le seul. C'est aussi le cas de Jack Withehead, le journaliste arriviste de 1974. Tous deux sont des hommes blessés, hantés. A mesure que l'on se rapproche des festivités du Jubilé, l'horreur s'amplifie. Quelles vérités le flic et le journaliste réussiront-ils à entrevoir dans un monde dominé par le mensonge et la corruptionoe Deuxième volet de la tétralogie du Yorkshire, 1977 est une ode funèbre, une quête désespérée du sens. Malgré sa noirceur, il se dévore d'une traite car l'auteur est, avec Robin Cook, le seul romancier britannique qui ose dépeindre le mal dans ses nuances les plus extrêmes pour réveiller les consciences endormies. David Peace est aujourd'hui considéré comme l'un des talents marquants de la jeune littérature anglaise.
''Un texte qu'on n'est pas prêts d'oublier'' Marie-Claire
''David Peace raconte l'histoire de l'Angleterre comme James Ellroy ausculta celle de l'Amérique'' Lire
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Nineteen Eighty Three 's three intertwining storylines see the Quartet's central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head as BJ, the rent boy from Nineteen Seventy Four , the lawyer Big John Piggott - who's as near as you get to a hero in Peace's world - and Maurice Jobson, the senior cop whose career of corruption and brutality has set all this in motion, find themselves on a collision course that can only end in a terrible vengeance. Nineteen Eighty Three is an epic tale which concluded an extraordinary body of work confirming Peace as the most innovative and remarkable new British crime writer to have emerged for years.
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Après 1974 et 1977, David Peace poursuit sa chronique de l'ouest du yorkshire, où les gens vivent dans la peur. Plusieurs années ont passé et l'éventreur continue à sévir malgré tous les efforts de la police. Les femmes n'osent plus sortir le soir. La psychose monte, chacun soupçonne son voisin et le mal semble même avoir gangrené les forces de l'ordre. Y a-t-il un flic honnête dans le comté du yorkshire ? Il y a peter hunter, seul contre tous.
L'homme qui va enquêter sur les enquêteurs. Creuser à mains nues et ramener la boue. Creuser la tombe de ses collègues corrompus ou la sienne ? À travers le personnage de peter hunter, directeur adjoint de la police de Manchester, David Peace brosse dans une langue incantatoire le tableau palpitant, écorché et violent, d'un lieu et d'une époque confrontés au chaos.
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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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Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of Japan's great writers - author of the stories 'Rashomon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove', most famously - who lived through Japan's turbulent Taisho period of 1912 to 1926, including the devastating 1923 Earthquake, only to take his own life at the age of just thirty-five in 1927. These are the stories of Patient X in one of our iron castles. He will tell his tales to anyone with the ears and the time to listen - Inspired and informed by Akutagawa's stories, essays and letters, David Peace has fashioned a most extraordinary novel of tales. An intense, passionate, haunting paean to one writer, it also thrillingly explores the act and obsession 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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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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Jeanette Garland, missing Castleford, July 1969. Susan Ridyard, missing Rochdale, March 1972. Claire Kemplay, missing Morley, since yesterday. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. It's winter, 1974, Yorkshire, and Eddie Dunford's got the job he wanted - crime correspondent for the Yorkshire Evening Post. He didn't know it was going to be a season in hell. A dead little girl with a swan's wings stitched into her back. In Nineteen Seventy Four , David Peace brings the passion and stylistic bravado of an Ellroy novel to this terrifyingly intense journey into a secret history of sexual obsession and greed, and starts a highly acclaimed crime series that has redefined how the genre is approached.
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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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Stylish, riveting and appalling, GB84 is a shocking fictional documentation of the violence, sleaze and fraudulence that characterised Thatcher's Britain. Great Britain. 1984. The miners' strike. It is the closest Britain has come to civil war in fifty years, setting the government against the people. In his trademark visceral prose, Peace describes the insidious workings of the boardroom negotiations and the increasingly anarchic coalfield battles; the struggle for influence in government and the dwindling powers of the NUM; and the corruption, intrigue and dirty tricks which run through the whole like a fault in a seam of coal. David Peace has written a novel extraordinary in its reach, and unflinching in its capacity to recreate the brutality and passion that changed the course of British history in the late twentieth century. 'A genuine British original.' Guardian 'Peace is a writer of such immense talent and power . . . If Northern noir is the crime fashion of the moment, Peace is its most brilliant designer.' The Times
