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On January 26, 1948, a general population health official finds a branch of the Teikoku Standard bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains to the supervisor, and he has been designated by Occupation authorities to take care of all local people who may have been exposed. The 16 members of the staff gather as the state pours the to begin two separate medicines into 16 cups and instructs them in how exactly to drink it. Within five minutes, 10 employees are lifeless and the state has fled. But the horrific crime is only the catalyst because of this blistering novel. In 12 different voices-each revealing to the storyplot of the murder from a singular perspective-the narrative gathers staggering power and pathos. We listen to one of the victims speak from the grave. We browse the increasingly mad notes of one of the circumstance detectives, the anxious letters of American occupier, and the testimony of an traumatized survivor. We meet a journalist, a gangster-turned-businessman, a guy who message or calls himself "The Occult Detective," a Soviet soldier, and a well-known painter accused and convicted of the crime. Every tone enlarges and deepens the family portrait of an people making their way to avoid it of an war-induced hell. Wittingly or unwittingly, every one of them plays a component in blurring the line between real truth and lies: in their own lives, in the life of the city, their background, their land, the newly appearing postwar world.A stunningly audacious work of fiction, Occupied City envelops the audience in its extreme time and place with its brilliantly idiosyncratic, expressionistic, and mesmerizing narrative.
