Murakami Haruki: Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

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Underground - Haruki Murakami In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members of the doomsdays cult responsible, in the hope that they might be able to explain the reason for the attack and how it was that their guru instilled such devotion in his followers. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Fiction and Literature | Contemporary Fiction od neuveden naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system. Many died, many more were injured. This is acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami's (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, etc.) nonfiction account of this episode. It is riveting. What he mostly does here, however, is listen to and record, in separate sections, the words of both victims, people who ''just happened to be gassed on the way to work,'' and attackers. The victims are Though interviews with both victims and perpetrators of the Tokyo gas attack Murakami presents a lucid account of an average Monday morning that turned into a national disaster.