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It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of
the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo
subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide.
The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit system had become the
target of a terrorist attack. |
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In an attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakami, internationally acclaimed
author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and arguably Japan's most important
contemporary novelist, talked to the people who lived through the catastrophe
-- from a Subway Authority employee with survivor guilt, to a fashion salesman
with more venom for the media than for the perpetrators, to a young cult
member who vehemently condemns the attack though he has not quit Aum. |
Through these and many other voices, Murakami exposes intriguing aspects
of the Japanese psyche. And as he discerns the fundamental issues leading
to the attack, we achieve a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime,
anywhere. |
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