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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Endo, Shusaku ; Gallagher, Michael
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| Publisher: |
New Directions Publishing Corporation
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| Date: |
04/17/1992
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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?
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