Ardita's review
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by Haruki Murakami
Ardita's review
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
Ardita's review
rating:
The only non fiction piece of Haruki Murakami. He has an interesting structure and approach to 1995 Aum Shinrikyo's evil deed to spread sarin gas in Tokyo's subway system.
It's pretty interesting as you read through the book, you'd discover reasons that brought Murakami to write this piece. As you went through each personal account of those affected and involved in the criminal attack, you'd discover the real Japanese psyche. How family managed themselves, the life of ordinary workers. Feelings and emotions that emerged.
I read quite some work of a few contemporary Japanese writers (Yoshimoto, Murakami, Kirino) and this book does help me understand what's going on in the mind of characters depicted in the book, as well as the cultural setting.
It's pretty interesting as you read through the book, you'd discover reasons that brought Murakami to write this piece. As you went through each personal account of those affected and involved in the criminal attack, you'd discover the real Japanese psyche. How family managed themselves, the life of ordinary workers. Feelings and emotions that emerged.
I read quite some work of a few contemporary Japanese writers (Yoshimoto, Murakami, Kirino) and this book does help me understand what's going on in the mind of characters depicted in the book, as well as the cultural setting.
