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Title: Underground
Subtitle: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
Author: Haruki Murakami
Narrator: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale, Janet Song
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-03-13
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 116 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, World Affairs
Publisher's Summary:
From Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood, a work of literary journalism that is as fascinating as it is necessary, as provocative as it is profound.
In March of 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas 26 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 Murakamis brilliant novels.
Critic Reviews:
Chilling...Murakami weaves a compelling true tale of normal lives faced with abnormal realities. (Sunday Tribune)
Powerfully observed. . . . A rattling chronicle of violence and terror. (Kirkus Reviews)
Through Murakamis sensitive yet relentless questioning, it emerges that the people who joined Aum felt just as adrift in the world as Murakamis own [fictional] characters do. (The Guardian)
