01 Oct / Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
The unpredictable Murakami deftly forays into nonfiction with an eerily unput-downable compilation of eyewitness accounts of what happened on March 20, 1995 when members of a religious cult unleashed deadly sarin gas on a crowded rush-hour Tokyo subway train.
Review: “Works in Translation,” aMagazine: Inside Asian America, October/November 2001
Readers: Adult
Published: 2001 (United States)