| Record Number |
797628 |
| ISBN |
9780099461098 (paperback) |
| Author |
Murakami, Haruki, 1949- author. |
| Title |
Underground / the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Vintage, 2013. |
| ©2000. |
| Pagination etc. |
map ; 20 cm. 309 pages : |
| Contents note |
Originally published: 2000. |
| Summary Note |
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 Murakamiʹs brilliant novels. |
| Language note |
Translated from Japanese. |
| Subject |
Oumu Shinrikyō (Religious organization) |
| Terrorism -- Japan -- Tokyo |
| Victims of terrorism -- Japan -- Tokyo |
| Cults -- Japan |
| Added Author |
Birnbaum, Alfred translator. |
| Gabriel, Philip, 1953- translator. |
Murakami, Haruki, 1949- Andaguraundo.
English. |
| Shelf Location |
364.1 MURA |
