Haruki Murakami

Broschiertes Buch

Underground

The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

Übersetzer: Birnbaum, Alfred; Gabriel, Philip

Beschreibung

Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster. In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects.

Autor

In 1978, Haruki Murakami was twenty-nine and running a jazz bar in downtown Tokyo. One April day, the impulse to write a novel came to him suddenly while watching a baseball game. That first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won a new writers' award and was published the following year. More followed, including A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but it was Norwegian Wood, published in 1987, that turned Murakami from a writer into a phenomenon. In works such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, 1Q84, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running and Men Without Women, Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world's most acclaimed and well-loved writers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 679264
• Seitenzahl: 309
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 226g
• ISBN-13: 9780099461098
• ISBN-10: 0099461099
• Artikelnr.: 09759383