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The Sea and Poison

By Shusaku Endo

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The Sea and Poison

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The Sea and Poison was the first Japanese book to confront the problem of individual responsibility in wartime, painting a searing picture of the human race's capacity for inhumanity. At the outset of this powerful story we find a Doctor Suguro in a backwater of modern-day Tokyo practicing expert medicine in a dingy office. He is haunted by his past experience and it is that past which the novel unfolds. During the war Dr. Suguro serves his internship in a hospital where the senior staff is more interested in personal career-building than in healing. He is induced to assist in a horrifying vivisection of a POW. "What is it that gets you," one of his colleagues asks. "Killing that prisoner? The conscience of man, is that it?"
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
175
Release Date:
1992-04-17
Publication Date:
1992-04-17
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811211983
ISBN13:
9780811211987
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
204 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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