Underground pdf

He is a Japanese writer and translator. Murakami has received several international literary prizes, including the Frank Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore, and was ranked by the Guardian magazine as one of the world's most prominent living novelists. His books: - Novels, one of his most important novels, Hear the Sound of the Song of the Wind (1987) Pinbal, 1973 (1985) Kafka on the Shore (2002) 1Q84 - (2009) South of the Border, West of the Sun Beloved Sputnik Norwegian Forest Dance..dance..dance Short stories The Frog Saves Tokyo (1999)

Underground pdf by Haruki Murakami

Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the target of a terrorist attack.
In an attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and arguably Japan’s most important contemporary novelist, talked to the people who lived through the catastrophe—from a Subway Authority employee with survivor guilt, to a fashion salesman with more venom for the media than for the perpetrators, to a young cult member who vehemently condemns the attack though he has not quit Aum. Through these and many other voices, Murakami exposes intriguing aspects of the Japanese psyche. And as he discerns the fundamental issues leading to the attack, we achieve a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere. Hauntingly compelling and inescapably important, Underground is a powerful work of journalistic literature from one of the world’s most perceptive writers.