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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami (Hardcover, 2000)

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Monday, 20 March 1995. It is a clear spring morning. You get up at the normal time, wash, dress, breakfast, and head for the subway. You board the train, crowded as usual. Nothing out of the ordinary. It promises to be a run-of-the-mill day. You don't notice, but as he is about to leave the carriage a man drops a plastic bag to the floor and punctures it with the sharpened tip of his umbrella, releasing an invisible cloud of deadly nerve gas. On other trains at the same time four accomplices, all members of a doomsday cult, are doing the same...The Tokyo Gas Attack left twelve people dead and over thousands injured; many suffering from after-effects such as blindness, memory loss and paralysis as a consequence of inhaling sarin gas. Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami, both horrified and fascinated by this apparently senseless act, has interviewed as many of the victims as were willing to talk to him in order to establish precisely what happened on the Tokyo subway that day. In Underground the survivors recount their thoughts and feelings at the time, marvel at the slow response of the emergency services, and reveal how the attack has changed their view of society. We are left with a sense not only of the nightmarish quality of the assault, but also of something amiss in Tokyo itself, perhaps in modern city life everywhere. In the second half of the book, Murakami interviews members of the Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) cult, in the hope that they might be able to explain how their guru, Shoko Asahara, instilled such devotion in his followers and why he resorted to terrorism.

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Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9781860467578
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91778296

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Author
Haruki Murakami
Publication Name
Underground: the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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240mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
610g

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Title_Author
Haruki Murakami
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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