| The Sea and Poison Contributor(s): Endo, Shusaku (Author), Gallagher, Michael (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0811211983 ISBN-13: 9780811211987 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1992 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - World War Ii - Fiction | Religious - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91041413 |
| Lexile Measure: 880 |
| Series: Revived Modern Classic |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.33" W x 7.95" (0.45 lbs) 175 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |
Contributor Bio(s): Endo, Shusaku: - Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is widely regarded as one of the most important Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. He won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novel Silence was recently made into a major film directed by Martin Scorsese. |