Underground
Murakami, Haruki
Birnbaum, Alfred (TRN)
Gabriel, Philip (TRN)
Birnbaum, Alfred
Gabriel, J. Philip
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 Murakamis brilliant novels.
BOOK REVIEWS
Chilling. . . . Murakami weaves a compelling true tale of normal lives faced with abnormal realities. Sunday Tribune
Powerfully observed. . . . A rattling chronicle of violence and terror. Kirkus Reviews
Through Murakamis sensitive yet relentless questioning, it emerges that the people who joined Aum felt just as adrift in the world as Murakamis own [fictional] characters do. The Guardian
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0375725806
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375725807
Copyright: 2001
Dewey Decimal: 364.15/23/0952
Library of Congress: 00069310
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 366
Paper Weight (lb): 0.75
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