Book description
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.
Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949 and now lives near Tokyo. He
is the author of many novels as well as short stories and non-fiction.
His works include
Norwegian Wood,
The Wi
nd-U
p Bird Chronicle
, Kafka on the Shore
, After Dark
and What I Talk About When I Talk About Runnin
g. His work has been translated into more than forty languages, and the
most recent of his many international honours is the Jerusalem Prize,
whose previous recipients include J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.
S. Naipaul.
