Meredith's review
Underground
by Haruki Murakami
I've heard bits of this read on the radio -- seemed really powerful. And I really like Murakami's fiction but have never read this one -- I should get to it.
Meredith's review
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Meredith's review
rating:
An important read for anyone working in emergency preparedness, but an interesting read for others, most likely. Murakami interviewed survivors of the 1995 sarin gas poisoning in Tokyo, as well as some members of the Aum cult. I appreciated how personal the story of a bioterrorist attack became (especially given how removed from real people it can sound in the professional writings I have to read on bioterrorism). Gave insight into how the lack of coordination by the government and healthcare response affected the survivors physically and emotionally, and how Japanese culture fed into the alienation the preceeded and followed the attacks.
I've heard bits of this read on the radio -- seemed really powerful. And I really like Murakami's fiction but have never read this one -- I should get to it.