Underground：The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

FromHarukiMurakami,internationallyacclaimedauthorofTheWind-UpBirdChronicleandNorwegianWood,aworkofliteraryjournalismthatisasfascinatingasitisnecessary,asprovocativeasitisprofound.InMarchof1995,agentsofaJapanesereligiouscultattackedtheTokyosubwaysystemwithsarin,agastwenty-sixtimesasdeadlyascyanide.Attemptingtodiscoverwhy,Murakamiconductedhundredsofinterviewswiththepeopleinvolved,fromthesurvivorstotheperpetratorstotherelativesofthosewhodied,andUndergroundistheirstoryintheirownvoices.Concernedwiththefundamentalissuesthatledtotheattackaswellasthesepersonalaccounts,UndergroundisadocumentofwhathappenedinTokyoaswellasawarningofwhatcouldhappenanywhere.ThisisanenthrallinganduniqueworkofnonfictionthatistimelyandvitalandaswonderfullyexecutedasMurakami'sbrilliantnovels.