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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 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 Murakami’s brilliant novels.

From Publishers Weekly

On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo

unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system.

Many died, many more were injured. This is acclaimed Japanese

novelist Murakami's (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, etc.) nonfiction

account of this episode. It is riveting. What he mostly does here,

however, is listen to and record, in separate sections, the words

of both victims, people who "just happened to be gassed on the way

to work," and attackers. The victims are ordinary people bankers,

businessmen, office workers, subway workers who reflect upon what

happened to them, how they reacted at the time and how they have

lived since. Some continue to suffer great physical disabilities,

nearly all still suffer great psychic trauma. There is a

Rashomon-like quality to some of the tales, as victims recount the

same episodes in slightly different variations. Cumulatively, their

tales fascinate, as small details weave together to create a

complex narrative. The attackers are of less interest, for what

they say is often similar, and most remain, or at least do not

regret having been, members of Aum. As with the work of Studs

Terkel, which Murakami acknowledges is a model for this present

work, the author's voice, outside of a few prefatory comments, is

seldom heard. He offers no grand explanation, no existential answer

to what happened, and the book is better for it. This is, then, a

compelling tale of how capriciously and easily tragedy can destroy

the ordinary, and how we try to make sense of it all. (May

1)Forecast: Publication coincides with the release of a new novel

by Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart, Forecasts, Mar. 19), and several

national magazines, including Newsweek and GQ, will be featuring

this fine writer. This attention should help Murakami's growing

literary reputation.

From Library Journal

The deadly Tokyo subway poison gas attack, perpetrated by members

of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on March 20, 1995, was the fulfillment of

every urban straphanger's nightmare. Through interviews with

several dozen survivors and former members of Aum, novelist

Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) presents an utterly

compelling work of reportage that lays bare the soul of

contemporary Japan in all its contradictions. The sarin attack

exposed Tokyo authorities' total lack of preparation to cope with

such fiendish urban terrorism. More interesting, however, is the

variety of reactions among the survivors, a cross-section of

Japanese citizens. Their individual voices remind us of the great

diversity within what is too often viewed from afar as a

homogeneous society. What binds most of them is their curious lack

of anger at Aum. Chilling, too, is the realization that so many Aum

members were intelligent, well-educated persons who tried to fill

voids in their lives by following Shoko Asahara, a mad guru who

promised salvation through total subordination to his will. For all

public and academic libraries. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Steven

I. Levine, Univ. of Montana, Missoula

From Booklist

After living abroad for eight years, novelist Murakami returned to

Japan intent on gaining a deeper understanding of his homeland, a

mission that took on an unexpected urgency in the aftermath of the

Tokyo poison-gas attack in March 1995. Inspired by a letter to the

editor from a woman whose husband survived the subway attack but

suffered terrible aftereffects, Murakami set out to interview as

many survivors as he could find who were capable of overcoming the

Japanese reluctance to complain or criticize. With great

sensitivity, insight, and respect, Murakami coaxed a remarkable

group of people into describing their harrowing experiences aboard

the five morning rush-hour trains on which members of the Aum

Shinrikyo cult released deadly sarin gas. Unlike a journalist,

Murakami doesn't force these searing narratives into tidy equations

of cause and effect, good and evil, but rather allows

contradictions and ambiguity to stand, thus presenting unadorned

the shocking truth of the diabolical and brutal manner in which

ordinary lives were derailed or destroyed. The most haunting aspect

of these accounts is the eerie passivity of the passengers both

during and after the assault, a phenomena echoed in Murakami's

courageous interviews with Aum members, frank conversations that

reveal the depth of these individuals' spiritual longings and the

horror of their betrayal at the hands of their corrupt and insane

leader. Shaped by his fascination with alternative worlds and

humanity's capacity for both compassion and abomination, Murakami's

masterful and empathic chronicle vividly articulates the lessons

that should be learned from this tragic foray into chaos.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Donna Seaman

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)20.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.3

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村上将奥姆真理教的封闭世界同伊斯兰原教旨主义世界加以比较，认为二者的共通之处在于：如果你有疑问，总会有人提供答案，只要你继续相信，就会一直很幸福。但在开放式的世界中，一切都是不完全的，有很多困惑和缺憾。“在大多数情况下我们都谈不上幸福，更多的反而是困惑和压力。但至少情况是开放式的。你有选择权，你可以决定你生活的方式…

在採訪時筆者首先提出的問題，是各個受採訪者的個人背景。在什麽地方出生，如何長大，有什麽興趣，從事什麽樣的工作，和什麼樣的家庭成員一起生活——這些事情。尤其對工作問得相當詳細。

像這樣採訪撥出許多時間和部分在被採訪者的個人背景上，是想讓每一位「被害者」的容貌細部都盡可能更明確真實地浮現出來。因為我不想讓每個活生生在那裡的肉身的人，只成為「沒有臉的許多被害者中的一個（one of them）」而敷衍了事。或許因為身為職業作家也有關係，我對「綜合性的、概念性的」資訊這東西不太感興趣。而只對每一個人具體的——不可能（難以）交換的——存在方式感到興趣。因此當我面對被採訪者時，在有限的兩小時左右之間，便集中精神試著努力更深入具體地去了解「這個人是什麽樣的人」，并希望依照原樣傳達給讀者，努力以這個基準化為文章。雖然實際上有很多是因為被採訪者的特殊內情而無法化為活字的。

我之所以採取這樣的態度採訪，是因為「加害者=奧姆關係者」每一個人的相貌和人物介紹（profile）都經由大眾傳播媒體的採訪而連細部都明確顯示出來，以一種魅惑性的資訊或故事向世間廣泛地傳播了；而相對地另一方面對處理「被害者=一般市民」的人物介紹（profile），卻像是一個模子定型了似的。其中所有的情況幾乎都只是在扮演被賦予的角色（「路人A」），極少提供人們會想要側耳傾聽的故事。而且那些少數的故事，也只是以被定型化的文脈述說。

或許那是因為一般大眾傳播媒體的文脈，是想將那些被害者以「受傷害的無辜一般市民」的形象確實地固定下來吧。如果更進一步說的話，那就是那些被害者沒有真實的臉，文脈比較容易展開。而且由於「（沒有臉的）健全市民」對「有臉的惡黨們」這種古典對比，畫面就容易畫得多了。

可能的話，我想盡可能打破這樣的固定公式。因為照理說那天早晨，搭地下鐵的每一位乘客，應該都各有臉、有生活、有人生、有家人、有歡喜、有煩惱、有戲...

我理解不了他们干的事。或许因为理解不了才恨不起来。

村上将奥姆真理教的封闭世界通伊斯兰教原教旨主义世界加以比较，认为两者的共通之处在于：如果你有疑问，总会有人提供答案，只要你继续相信，就会一直很幸福。但在开放式的世界中，一切都是不完全的，有很多困惑和缺憾。

当今最为可怕的，就是由特定的主义、主张造成的类似‘精神囚笼’那样的东西。多数人需要那样的框架，没有了就无法忍受。……。“因此，村上认定【物语】必须是对抗体制及其造成的”精神囚笼“的武器。

当时没有人说“好奇怪”或者问“是否感觉呼吸困难”什么的吗？我想大家都应该感觉有些异样才是……

毒蝇碱作用，即有机磷中毒。

在这种集体灾难中最重要的是“伤病员鉴别分类”，也就是为患者安排治疗顺序。

编辑推荐

“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 Murakami’s sensitive yet relentless questioning, it

emerges that the people who joined Aum felt just as adrift in the

world as Murakami’s own [fictional] characters do.” –The

Guardian

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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 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 Murakami’s brilliant novels.

From Publishers Weekly

On March 20, 1995, followers of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo unleashed lethal sarin gas into cars of the Tokyo subway system. Many died, many more were injured. This is acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami's (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, etc.) nonfiction account of this episode. It is riveting. What he mostly does here, however, is listen to and record, in separate sections, the words of both victims, people who "just happened to be gassed on the way to work," and attackers. The victims are ordinary people bankers, businessmen, office workers, subway workers who reflect upon what happened to them, how they reacted at the time and how they have lived since. Some continue to suffer great physical disabilities, nearly all still suffer great psychic trauma. There is a Rashomon-like quality to some of the tales, as victims recount the same episodes in slightly different variations. Cumulatively, their tales fascinate, as small details weave together to create a complex narrative. The attackers are of less interest, for what they say is often similar, and most remain, or at least do not regret having been, members of Aum. As with the work of Studs Terkel, which Murakami acknowledges is a model for this present work, the author's voice, outside of a few prefatory comments, is seldom heard. He offers no grand explanation, no existential answer to what happened, and the book is better for it. This is, then, a compelling tale of how capriciously and easily tragedy can destroy the ordinary, and how we try to make sense of it all. (May 1)Forecast: Publication coincides with the release of a new novel by Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart, Forecasts, Mar. 19), and several national magazines, including Newsweek and GQ, will be featuring this fine writer. This attention should help Murakami's growing literary reputation.

From Library Journal

The deadly Tokyo subway poison gas attack, perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on March 20, 1995, was the fulfillment of every urban straphanger's nightmare. Through interviews with several dozen survivors and former members of Aum, novelist Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) presents an utterly compelling work of reportage that lays bare the soul of contemporary Japan in all its contradictions. The sarin attack exposed Tokyo authorities' total lack of preparation to cope with such fiendish urban terrorism. More interesting, however, is the variety of reactions among the survivors, a cross-section of Japanese citizens. Their individual voices remind us of the great diversity within what is too often viewed from afar as a homogeneous society. What binds most of them is their curious lack of anger at Aum. Chilling, too, is the realization that so many Aum members were intelligent, well-educated persons who tried to fill voids in their lives by following Shoko Asahara, a mad guru who promised salvation through total subordination to his will. For all public and academic libraries. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Steven I. Levine, Univ. of Montana, Missoula

From Booklist

After living abroad for eight years, novelist Murakami returned to Japan intent on gaining a deeper understanding of his homeland, a mission that took on an unexpected urgency in the aftermath of the Tokyo poison-gas attack in March 1995. Inspired by a letter to the editor from a woman whose husband survived the subway attack but suffered terrible aftereffects, Murakami set out to interview as many survivors as he could find who were capable of overcoming the Japanese reluctance to complain or criticize. With great sensitivity, insight, and respect, Murakami coaxed a remarkable group of people into describing their harrowing experiences aboard the five morning rush-hour trains on which members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult released deadly sarin gas. Unlike a journalist, Murakami doesn't force these searing narratives into tidy equations of cause and effect, good and evil, but rather allows contradictions and ambiguity to stand, thus presenting unadorned the shocking truth of the diabolical and brutal manner in which ordinary lives were derailed or destroyed. The most haunting aspect of these accounts is the eerie passivity of the passengers both during and after the assault, a phenomena echoed in Murakami's courageous interviews with Aum members, frank conversations that reveal the depth of these individuals' spiritual longings and the horror of their betrayal at the hands of their corrupt and insane leader. Shaped by his fascination with alternative worlds and humanity's capacity for both compassion and abomination, Murakami's masterful and empathic chronicle vividly articulates the lessons that should be learned from this tragic foray into chaos.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Donna Seaman

Book Dimension :

length: (cm)20.3 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.3