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Underground

The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

By Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum (Translator), J. Philip Gabriel (Translator)

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From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.

In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attackContinue

From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.

In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakami’s brilliant novels.

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  • Dangers on a train

    Underground Haruki Murakami Harvill Press £20, pp400 Koichi Sakata, a 50-year-old commuter, has a precisely ordered life. He leaves his home at 7am everyday, walks swiftly to the station to take the Sotestu Line to Yokohama (the exercise does his blo ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • What did Aum Shinrikyo have in mind?

    Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be. In 1972, I was on the London Underground when a man failed to mind the gap. Not only did he put his foot betwee ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

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