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The Sea and Poison

The Sea and Poison

Gallagher, Michael
Endo, Shusaku

Paperback

Series: Revived Modern Classic, Book 737

Classic FictionGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction

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ISBN10: 0811211983
ISBN13: 9780811211987
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Apr 17 1992
Pages: 175
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.33 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
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?

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