Underground The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
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(59 ratings)384 pages2001Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN 9780375725807
About this book
<b>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.</b><br> <br> 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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780375725807
- Language
- en
About Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami
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