Subway – Murakami Haruki – Eksmo – 2019 – ISBN 978-5-04-100440-8
Subway
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Sarin is a military-grade nerve agent 26 times more lethal than potassium cyanide: a pinhead-sized drop of sarin is enough to kill a person.
This is not just a book by the distinguished Japanese writer Haruki Murakami about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995. It is, first and foremost, a work about contemporary Japanese people, written by them themselves—and a unique narrative relevant in any country as long as the threat of terrorism persists.
The book is based on interviews with the victims. The author and his team of like-minded individuals spent a year collecting the recordings. Haruki Murakami did not want the victims to appear as anything more than "Passerby A."
"Everyone who rode the subway that morning has their own face, their own life, their own destiny, their own family, joys and sorrows, dramas and contradictions."
All testimonies are entirely voluntary. Listen to people's stories. No, first of all, imagine.
"Today is Monday. A clear, cheerful morning. The wind is still cool. People are wearing coats. Yesterday was Sunday. Tomorrow is a holiday? The vernal equinox. You would like to rest today, but you couldn't take the day off. So you woke up as usual, washed, had breakfast, got dressed, and went to the subway. You boarded the always-crowded train and went to work. Everything is so ordinary. A morning like so many others. Another unremarkable day in the flow of life. Until five men in disguise began poking the sharpened ends of their umbrellas into plastic bags filled with a strange liquid.
This is not just a book by the distinguished Japanese writer Haruki Murakami about the victims of the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995. It is, first and foremost, a work about contemporary Japanese people, written by them themselves—and a unique narrative relevant in any country as long as the threat of terrorism persists.
The book is based on interviews with the victims. The author and his team of like-minded individuals spent a year collecting the recordings. Haruki Murakami did not want the victims to appear as anything more than "Passerby A."
"Everyone who rode the subway that morning has their own face, their own life, their own destiny, their own family, joys and sorrows, dramas and contradictions."
All testimonies are entirely voluntary. Listen to people's stories. No, first of all, imagine.
"Today is Monday. A clear, cheerful morning. The wind is still cool. People are wearing coats. Yesterday was Sunday. Tomorrow is a holiday? The vernal equinox. You would like to rest today, but you couldn't take the day off. So you woke up as usual, washed, had breakfast, got dressed, and went to the subway. You boarded the always-crowded train and went to work. Everything is so ordinary. A morning like so many others. Another unremarkable day in the flow of life. Until five men in disguise began poking the sharpened ends of their umbrellas into plastic bags filled with a strange liquid.
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