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From Publishers Weekly 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 ordinary people bankers, businessmen, office workers, subway workers who reflect upon what happened to them, how they reacted at the time and how they have lived since. Some continue to suffer great physical disabilities, nearly all still suffer great psychic trauma. There is a Rashomon-like quality to some of the tales, as victims recount the same episodes in slightly different variations. Cumulatively, their tales fascinate, as small details weave together to create a complex narrative. The attackers are of less interest, for what they say is often similar, and most remain, or at least do not regret having been, members of Aum. As with the work of Studs Terkel, which

Who reads Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Vintage International)?

Author

Haruki Murakami; Alfred Birnbaum; Philip Gabriel & chenjin5.com

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307762702

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Religion, Psychology

Rating

4.17 / 5 (11,591 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13