"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.
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. Hauntingly compelling and inescapably important, 'Underground' is a powerful work of journalistic literature from one of the world's most perceptive writers.
“It is 1939. Nazy Germany. The country is holding its
breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
By her brother graveside, Liesel Meminger’s life is changed
when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is ‘The
Grave Digger’s Handbook’, left there by accident, and it is her first act of
book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with
the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is
stealing books from Nazi book-burning, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever
there are books to be found.
But these are dangerous times. When Liesel’s foster family
hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up and closed
down.
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