The Sea and Poison

by Shusaku Endo

2021-01-03 09:45:32

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 ... Read more
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?" " Less

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ISBN9780811211987

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