{"product_id":"the-sea-and-poison-shusaku-endo-9780811211987","title":"The Sea and Poison","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Sea and Poison\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shusaku Endo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811211983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811211987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.33w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/09\/1992","brand":"Shusaku Endo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046521237759,"sku":"9780811211987","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d02f0b86-8262-44cc-8e0c-17edf484c579.jpg?v=1684985025","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sea-and-poison-shusaku-endo-9780811211987","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}