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Monday, May 6, 2013

A message to victims Haruki Murakami Boston

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Haruki Murakami (wikipedia)

Some wounds will heal over time, but the passage of time can also cause this type of injury. You should be able to understand, accept and deal with it. You have to build a new life on top of the injuries
Tokyo (AFP)-Japan Writer Haruki Murakami had sent "personal messages" to the victims of the bombing of the Boston Marathon by stating he felt the wound as a result of the attack in his favorite running race.

"So, although from a distance, I could imagine how devastated and powerless feeling of the citizens of Boston about the disaster that befell the annual ' race ' it," Murakami is published in the New Yorker titled "Boston, than a citizen of the world who called himself a runner".

"Something that is supposed to be pure is polluted, and I--as well as a citizen of the world who call themselves sprinters--were hurt."

Murakami said had lived in suburban Boston for three years, including two years as guest students at Tufts University and a year at Harvard as well as follow the Boston Marathon six times.

"I've participated in marathons around the world, but each was asked where the most I liked, I never hesitate to answer: the Boston Marathon," he writes in the language of Japan have been translated, as reported to AFP.

Murakami compares the recovery process of scars caused by the attack with the pass through of climbing the Hill at the end of the marathon in the race.

"The real Pain felt when successfully conquered Heartbreak Hill ' and ' ran down, then reaching a flat ... city street," he said.

"Emotional scars may be the same. The real cuts will occur after the pass, after we overcome the shock and everything started well established. "

"Just as when climbing slopes and appears to the base we would feel just how miserable we are that long. Boston bomb might leave the inner wounds for a long period of time, "said Murakami in his writing in the New Yorker.

Two brothers from the ethnic Chechen, Tamerlan Tsarnaev (26), who then was killed by police gunfire and his brother Dzhokhar (19), accused of blasting which led to three people dead and 260 injured victims at a prestigious sporting events.

Murakami recalled when he was an interview families of the victims died and penyintas nerve gas attack against subway riders in Tokyo in 1995.

Translator: Maria D. Andriana



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