How long does it take to read Tokyo Year Zero?
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace takes about 6 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Tokyo Trilogy
Next: Occupied City
About 6 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 355 pages, about 97,625 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Police, Serial murders, Mystery, Detective and mystery stories
