Reviewed by: Carol S. Fullerton, PhD
Haruki Murakami
Vintage International
Copyright 2001
366 pages
ISBN number: 0-375-72580-6
$14.00 paperback edition
For many months thereafter [after the Tokyo subway gas attack], the media overflowed with "news" of all kinds about the [Aum] cult. From morning till night Japanese TV was virtually nonstop Aum. The papers, tabloids, magazines all devoted thousands of pages to the gas attack. None of which told me what I wanted to know. No, mine was a very simple question: What actually happened in the Tokyo subway the morning of March 20, 1995?… The question was, what would happen to any ordinary Japanese citizen — such as me or any of my readers — if they were suddenly caught up in an attack of this kind? (p. 225)
In his first work of nonfiction, Haruki Murakami, an internationally acclaimed novelist born in Kyoto, Japan, provides a safe place for the survivors of the subway attack to recall their personal experience of terror. The interviews with victims and families provide a setting of security that many survivors have had trouble finding since the morning of March 20, 1995, when sarin, a nerve gas that causes everything from eye problems and mild headache to immobility, dyspnea, vomiting, and cardiac or respiratory arrest, was released by the Aum Shinrikyo cult into the Tokyo subway system, killing 11 and injuring more than 5500 people. If it is possible to find shelter in today's world, find one before picking up this book, for it is truly an unforgettable book.
e-Med Tools
קצר קולע וממוקד
e-Med סמינרים
אי-מד תחקירים
Medscape Tools
Journal Club
מרכזי מידע ושירות
Facebook
מידע למפרסם
מאגר תרופות
מאגר אנשי המקצוע
אינדקס שימושי
חדשות משה"ב
eMed HealthClub
מחקרים קליניים
השאירו תגובה
רוצה להצטרף לדיון?תרגישו חופשי לתרום!