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Overview

El ataque con gas sarín que se produjo en el metro de Tokio en marzo de 1995 se cobró doce vidas; además, miles de personas resultaron heridas y muchas otras sufrieron sus consecuencias y secuelas. Hondamente afectado, el novelista Haruki Murakami entrevista a las víctimas, a los que vivieron y sufrieron en su propia carne el atentado, para establecer con precisión qué ocurrió ese día en las distintas líneas de metro afectadas y cómo lo vivieron. También desentraña la verdadera historia que se ocultaba tras aquel acto terrorista que convirtió una anodina mañana de lunes en una tragedia nacional. Y, sobre todo, intenta responder a algunas preguntas primordiales: ¿por qué?, ¿por qué en ese momento y lugar concretos?, ¿qué nos dice de la psicología japonesa el comportamiento de todos los implicados? Como contrapunto, Murakami nos ofrece los testimonios de algunos miembros y ex miembros de la secta para desentrañar los motivos que condujeron a aquel atentado.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788483839614
Publisher: Tusquets Editores
Publication date: 10/07/2014
Series: Andanzas , #11
Sold by: Planeta
Format: eBook
Pages: 560
File size: 4 MB
Language: Spanish

About the Author

About The Author

Haruki Murakami (Kioto, 1949) es uno de los pocos autores japoneses que han dado el salto de escritor de prestigio a autor con grandes ventas en todo el mundo. Ha recibido numerosos premios, entre ellos el Noma, el Tanizaki, el Yomiuri, el Franz Kafka o el Jerusalem Prize, y su nombre suena reiteradamente como candidato al Nobel de Literatura. En España, ha merecido el Premio Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente, la Orden de las Artes y las Letras, concedida por el Gobierno español, y el Premi Internacional Catalunya 2011.

Hometown:

Tokyo, Japan

Date of Birth:

January 12, 1949

Place of Birth:

Kyoto, Japan

Education:

Waseda University, 1973

Table of Contents

PART ONE UNDERGROUND
Map of the Tokyo Subwayviii
Preface3
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: CHIYODA LINE9
Kiyoka Izumi: 12
Nobody was dealing with things calmly
Masaru Yuasa: 18
I've been here since I first joined
Minoru Miyata: 24
At that point Takahashi was still alive
Toshiaki Toyoda: 28
I'm not a sarin victim, I'm a survivor
Tomoko Takatsuki: 36
It's not even whether or not to take the subway,
just to go out walking scares me now
Mitsuteru Izutsu: 41
The day after the gas attack, I asked my wife for a divorce
Aya Kazaguchi: 45
Luckily I was dozing off
Hideki Sono: 48
Everyone loves a scandal
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (DESTINATION:
OGIKUBO)52
Mitsuo Arima: 55
I felt like I was watching a programme on TV
Kenji Ohashi: 58
Looking back,it all started because the bus was
two minutes early
Soichi Inagawa: 65
That day and that day only I took the first door
Sumio Nishimura: 68
If I hadn't been there, somebody else would have
picked up the packets
Koichi Sakata: 73
I was in pain, yet I still bought my milk as usual
Tatsuo Akashi: 76
The night before the gas attack, the family was
saying over dinner, "My, how lucky we are"
Shizuko Akashi: 84
Ii-yu-nii-an (Disneyland)
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: MARUNOUCHI LINE (DESTINATION;
IKEBUKURO)91
Shintaro Komada: 93
"What can that be?" I thought
Ikuko Nakayama: 97
I knew it was sarin
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (DEPARTING:
NAKA-MEGURO)102
Hiroshige Sugazaki: 105
"What if you never see your grandchild's face?"
Kozo Ishino: 110
I had some knowledge of sarin
Michael Kennedy: 115
I kept shouting "Please, please, please!" in Japanese
Yoko Iizuka: 120
That kind of fright is something you never forget
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE (DEPARTING:
KITA-SENJU; DESTINATION: NAKA-MEGURO)125
Noburu Terajima: 128
I'd borrowed the down payment, and my wife was
expecting — it looked pretty bad
Masanori Okuyama: 132
In a situation like that the emergency services
aren't much help at all
Michiaki Tamada: 135
Ride the trains every day and you know what's
regular air
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: HIBIYA LINE
Takanori Ichiba: 139
Some loony's probably sprinkled pesticides or something
Naoyuki Ogata: 143
We'll never make it. If we wait for the ambulance we're done for
Michiru Kono: 148
It'd be pathetic to die like this
Kei'ichi Ishikura: 154
The day of the gas attack was my sixty-fifth birthday
TOKYO METROPOLITAN SUBWAY: KODEMMACHO STATION
Ken'ichi Yamazaki: 159
I saw his face and thought: "I've seen this
character somewhere"
Yoshiko Wada, widow of Eiji Wada: 165
He was such a kind person. He seemed to get even
kinder before he died
Kichiro Wada and Sanaé Wada, parents of Eiji Wada: 175
He was an undemanding child
Koichiro Makita: 181
Sarin! Sarin!
Dr Toru Saito: 186
The very first thing that came to mind was poison
gas — cyanide or sarin
Dr Nobuo Yanagisawa: 191
There is no prompt and efficient system in Japan
for dealing with a major catastrophe
Blind Nightmare: 195
Where Are We Japanese Going?
PART TWO THE PLACE THAT WAS PROMISED
Preface213
Hiroyuki Kano: 217
I'm still in Aum
Akio Namimura: 229
Nostradamus had a great influence on my generation
Mitsuharu Inaba: 239
Each individual has his own image of the Master
Hajime Masutani: 251
This was like an experiment using human beings
Miyuki Kanda: 261
In my previous life I was a man
Shinichi Hosoi: 272
"If I stay here," I thought, "I'm going to die"
Harumi Iwakura: 285
Asahara tried to force me to have sex with him
Hidetoshi Takahashi: 295
No matter how grotesque a figure Asahara appears,
I can't just dismiss him
Afterword305
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