pbAn extraordinary and highly original crime novel iNew York Times Book Reviewi that plunges us into post-World War II Occupied Japan in a Rashomon-like retelling of a mass poisoning based on an actual event, its aftermath, and the hidden wartime atrocities that led to the crime. pHugely daring, utterly irresistible, deeply serious and unlike anything I have ever read.--iNew York Times Book Review ibrbbrOn January 26, 1948, a man identifying himself as a public health official arrives at a bank in Tokyo. There has been an outbreak of dysentery in the neighborhood, he explains, and he has been assigned by Occupation authorities to treat everyone who might have been exposed to the disease. Soon after drinking the medicine he administers, twelve employees are dead, four are unconscious, and the official has fled.... pTwelve voices tell the story of the murder from different perspectives. One of the victims speaks, for all the victims, from the grave. We read the increasingly mad notes of