The Sea and Poison by Shusaku Endo
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?
Shusaku Endo is often regarded as Japan's most important writer. Widely translated around the globe, his works are considered modern classics. Endo was nominated for the 1994 Nobel Prize, and was awarded the Tanizaki Prize--Japan's most prestigious literary award--for Silence. He went on to win every major literary award in Japan, including the Akutagawa, the Noma, and the Shincho. Endo passed away in 1996.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811211987 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811211983 |
| Title | The Sea and Poison |
| Author | Shusaku Endo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 1993-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 175 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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