{"product_id":"the-sea-and-poison-a-novel-new-directions-paperbook-737-0811211983","title":"The Sea and Poison: A Novel (New Directions Paperbook, 737)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0811211983\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Endo, Shusaku\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel The Sea and Poison won the Akutagawa Prize when it was published in Japan in 1958 and established Shusaku Endo in the forefront of modern Japanese literature. 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 races 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?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51880954921248,"sku":"NEW0811211983","price":19.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/6158YTIMk1L.jpg?v=1781813818","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-sea-and-poison-a-novel-new-directions-paperbook-737-0811211983","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}