{"id":6511,"date":"2001-10-01T22:41:01","date_gmt":"2001-10-02T02:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:38:35","slug":"underground-the-tokyo-gas-attack-and-the-japanese-psyche-by-haruki-murakami-translated-by-alfred-birnbaum-and-philip-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/underground-the-tokyo-gas-attack-and-the-japanese-psyche-by-haruki-murakami-translated-by-alfred-birnbaum-and-philip-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2001\/10\/Underground.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-32554\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2001\/10\/Underground.jpg\" alt=\"Underground\" width=\"940\" height=\"1462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2001\/10\/Underground.jpg 1049w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2001\/10\/Underground-514x800.jpg 514w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2001\/10\/Underground-800x1245.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/amagazine-2001-1011-pages-works-in-translation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Works in Translation,&#8221; 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