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Originally Posted by Tenzin_la
I'm reading one of the fictional pieces by Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8716774-underground. It's actually been quite since I've read any fiction that really 'touches' me. I've avoided it for the wrong reasons. I have even more respect for Mr. Murakami now because of the way he described setting out to do each interview, writing it up, sending it to the interviewee to remove / change anything. Mr. Murakami might re-write and resubmit to them. But, in the end, the interviewee had the final say. As important a story this is, from a culture that is not normally seen as ones who complain over much (I could be very wrong about that. I'll apologize in advance for any mis-information. This is a story that needs to be written and discussed. |
I am admittedly a substantial Murakami stan, but Underground was only the second book of his that I read. And I adored it. It was fascinating and relatively unflinching. It was definitely in my top 10 the year I read it. And now you are tempting me to re-read it.