Underground - Haruki Murakami
- In French. First published in 2003.
In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members of the doomsdays cult responsible, in the hope that they might be able to explain the reason for the attack and how it was that their guru instilled such devotion in his followers.
-> An interesting book, yet a bit repetitive, as it sheds lights on the dramatic event which happened 20 years ago in Tokyo. Yet not a lot of information about AUm and their real reasons behind the massacer.
In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members of the doomsdays cult responsible, in the hope that they might be able to explain the reason for the attack and how it was that their guru instilled such devotion in his followers.
-> An interesting book, yet a bit repetitive, as it sheds lights on the dramatic event which happened 20 years ago in Tokyo. Yet not a lot of information about AUm and their real reasons behind the massacer.