Murakami mesmerizes with his fiction, but his nonfiction is not to be missed

Ask a Bookseller · May 25, 2018 · 1m

Every week, The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. This week, we spoke with Lucas Mcguffie from the Montclair Book Center in Montclair, N.J.Haruki Murakami is perhaps best known for his novels: "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," "Norwegian Wood," "1Q84." But bookseller Lucas Mcguffie highly recommends a book of nonfiction Murakami published in the late 90s. It's a mix of "literature and journalism," he said, called "Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche."The book examines the aftermath of a 1995 Japanese terrorist…