Silvia's review
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by Haruki Murakami
Silvia's review
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami
Silvia's review
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I rate this book a 4 star.
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.
The book was originally written with only survivors and not much about the perpetrators, the Aum cult. It was only after it was originally published that Murakami added the second part of the book with interviews people who were in Aum at the time of the gas attack. Most of these men and women are no longer members. The most interesting are those who are still practicing members.
I have a buddy from Tokyo who I went to school with for a couple of years. There were ways she looked at the world and life that were very different from my viewpoint. We really got along well, but there was always a wall there that kept us from really connecting. It was frustrating. Reading the interviewees transcriptions, I could hear her voice. I recognized some ...more
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.
The book was originally written with only survivors and not much about the perpetrators, the Aum cult. It was only after it was originally published that Murakami added the second part of the book with interviews people who were in Aum at the time of the gas attack. Most of these men and women are no longer members. The most interesting are those who are still practicing members.
I have a buddy from Tokyo who I went to school with for a couple of years. There were ways she looked at the world and life that were very different from my viewpoint. We really got along well, but there was always a wall there that kept us from really connecting. It was frustrating. Reading the interviewees transcriptions, I could hear her voice. I recognized some ...more
