Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

by Haruki Murakami

Alfred Birnbaum (Translator) and Philip Gabriel (Translator)

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In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world.
 
On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Murakami paints a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere.
  • ISBN10 0375725806
  • ISBN13 9780375725807
  • Publish Date 10 April 2001 (first published 1 June 2000)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 July 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books