Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Haruki Murakami

Aug 2010 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.
 
On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Murakami paints a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere.

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Underground retells the story of Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack from the victims perspective (and later on Aum's Cult follower). Murakami managed to capture the confusion, suspense, grief, and sadness that covers the whole tragedy and insight into how Japanese people, culture, and society behaves in real life.

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About the author

Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and the most recent of his many international honors is the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V. S. Naipaul.