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false <![CDATA[Underground]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166853981m/17801.jpg 17801 13 From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound. 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 Murakami's brilliant novels. 6179816 1997 Underground total:1468|5:368|4:608|3:402|2:80|1:10| 1468 5648 2359 138 5 1 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 06:50:52 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 06:50:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Nov 07 21:05:15 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 07:02:32 -0800 2007
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In Underground, Murakami looks at the Tokyo Gas attacks (carried out by an apocalyptic cult named Aum) through a series of interview - with both victims of the attack and members of the cult at ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 07:41:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 16 20:20:12 -0800 2009
Murakami does a good job to present the lives of others with minimum interpretation of his own. This gives the book strength. I do have to admit tha...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 13 17:54:13 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 13:10:26 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Mar 18 05:47:09 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 02:11:39 -0700 2009 3 Ordinary people and ordinary lives shaken and chnaged by the events on the subway.
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There is a profound sense of alienation rendered in these interviews. Normal people--muddl...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 06:24:53 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 06:34:18 -0700 2008 One thing that struck me is how much more the people interviewed seemed to identify not only with their culture, but also with their place in it, and proud to be defined by their funcitons / jobs within their culture, eg...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Aug 11 18:18:24 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 22 21:37:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 13 20:13:57 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 07:53:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 21 07:54:17 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 08:18:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 31 06:44:37 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 26 18:04:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 30 16:22:35 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 00:03:58 -0700 2007
In 1995, Aum Shinrikyo, a cult group lead by Shoko Asahara, carried out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. 12 people were killed and another 4-5,000 were injured. Asahara was a failed acupuncturist (and interestingly, an anime and manga fanatic) who decided to...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 19:14:52 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 19:14:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 08:40:32 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 11:58:32 -0700 2007
This is Murakami's only work of non-fiction. The book is mostly interviews from survivors of the Tokyo Gas Attack. It uses the interviewees to speak for the Japanese people and shed light on the Japanese culture.

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This is like one of Murakami's novels, except all of the characters are real people, which makes it that much ...more...]]> 4 0 true false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Mar 31 02:57:40 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 31 03:09:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 20:34:47 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 16:01:57 -0700 2009 Underground is the nonfiction account of what happened in the 1995 Tokyo subway attacks. I had never heard of this event, but a religious cult called Aum had released several packets of sarin (a poisonous gas) on numerous subway cars during the morning commute one Monday.

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