“Tokyo Redux” David Peace, (2021) Review | Catching “Shimoyama disease”

★★★★☆ A fiction based on Japan's most mysterious unresolved case from 1949. Nostalgic and mysterious like Japan and hardboiled-cool like America. You too will catch "Shimoyama disease".

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Tokyo Redux
David Peace, 2021
480 pages
Read 2024.5


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What is “Shimoyama case”?
It’s a fiction based on Japan’s most mysterious unresolved case from 1949.

It’s full of masculine romanticism, throughout Japan’s Showa era, basen in Tokyo that everyone fantacises.

Nostalgic and mysterious like Japan and hardboiled-cool like America.

As they say, you catch “Shimoyama disease”.
The writer is not Japanese, but precisely because of that it is good and is such a page turner, I now need to find the other 2 of the trilogy.

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