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The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of the Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927), whose short story "In the Grove" served as an inspiration for Akira Kurosawa's famous film Rashōmon, and whose narrative use of multiple perspectives and different versions of a single event influenced generations of storytellers. Writing out of his own obsession with Akutagawa, David Peace delves into the known facts and events of the writer's life and inner world--birth to a mother who was mentally ill and a father who died shortly thereafter; his own battles with mental illness; his complicated reaction to the beginnings of modernization and Westernization of Japan; his short but prolific writing career; his suicide at the age of thirty-five--and creates a stunningly atmospheric and deeply moving fiction that tells its own story of a singularly brilliant mind.

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  • Title Patient X: The Case-Book of Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  • Author David Peace
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780525521778 / 0525521771
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, Japanese, Novels
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018946864
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

About the author

David Peace--named in 2003 one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists--was born and brought up in Yorkshire. He is the author of the Red Riding Quartet (Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three); GB84, which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; The Damned Utd and Red or Dead, which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. The final part of his Tokyo Trilogy--to follow Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City--will appear after Patient X, his tenth novel. He lives in Tokyo.

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