Underground : the Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche / by Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel.
Language: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: London : Vintage, 2003.Edition: Di 1 banDescription: 309 pages pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780099461098
- 0099461099
- Tokyo gas attack and the Japanese psyche
- Oumu Shinriky? (Religious organization)
- Oumu Shinrikyo (Religious organizaiton)
- Oumu Shinrikyō (Religious organization)
- Oumu Shinrikyō (Religious organization)
- Terrorism -- Japan
- Cults
- Terrorism
- Victims of terrorism
- Cults -- Japan
- Terrorism -- Japan -- Tokyo
- Victims of terrorism -- Japan -- Tokyo
- Japan
- Japan -- Tokyo
- Japan
- Religious cults
- Terrorism
- Victims of crime
- Overseas item
- Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) Sect
- Sarin (nerve gas)
- Religious cults
- Terrorism
- Victims of crime
- Overseas item
- Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) Sect
- Japan
- 364.10952135 21
- BP605.O88 M8613 2003
- I313.55
- D731.35
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 364.109 MUR | Available | 069995 |
Originally published: 2000.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. Attempting to discover why, Murakami conducted hundreds of interviews with the people involved, from the survivors to the perpetrators to the relatives of those who died, and Underground is their story in their own voices. Concerned with the fundamental issues that led to the attack as well as these personal accounts, Underground is a document of what happened in Tokyo as well as a warning of what could happen anywhere. This is an enthralling and unique work of nonfiction that is timely and vital and as wonderfully executed as Murakamiʹs brilliant novels.
Translated from Japanese.
