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Underground

The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Underground( )
Author: Murakami, Haruki
ISBN:978-607-421-632-5
Publication Date:Jan 2015
Publisher:Editorial Planeta, S. A.
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $27.95
Book Description:

El ataque con gas sarín que se produjo en el metro de Tokio en marzo de 1995 se cobró doce vidas; además, miles de personas resultaron heridas y muchas otras sufrieron sus consecuencias y secuelas. Hondamente afectado, el novelista Haruki Murakami entrevista a las víctimas, a los que vivieron y sufrieron en su propia carne el atentado, para establecer con precisión qué ocurrió ese día en las distintas líneas de metro afectadas y cómo lo vivieron. También desentraña la verdadera...
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Book Details
Pages:560
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.02 x 8.87 x 1.44 Inches
Book Weight:1.32 Pounds
Author Biography
Murakami, Haruki (Author)
Haruki Murakami was born on January 12, 1949 in Kyoto, Japan and studied at Tokyo's Waseda University. He opened a coffeehouse/jazz bar in the capital called Peter Cat with his wife. He became a full-time author following the publication of his first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, in 1979.

He writes both fiction and non-fiction works. His fiction works include Norwegian Wood, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, The Strange Library, and Men Without Women. Several of his stories have been adapted for the stage and as films. His nonfiction works include What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. He has received numerous literary awards including the Franz Kafka Prize for Kafka on the Shore, the Yomiuri Prize for The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, and the Jerusalem Prize. He has translated into Japanese literature written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Truman Capote, John Irving, and Paul Theroux.

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