The Sea and Poison - Shusaku Endo A Small Corner of Hell

A Small Corner of Hell

his titanic and poetic personality

guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters

political and social past

Because how do you decide what makes life worth living

The Sea and Poison - Shusaku Endo A Small Corner of HellIn 1950s Japan, Doctor Suguro practises medicine in a backwater still recovering from the war. Quiet and withdrawn, he lives tortured by his conscience and a horrific wartime memory: participating in the vivisection of an American airman, an experiment which led to his agonising death. This spare, harrowing novel, based on real events, is a profound exploration of the pressures of conflict, the moral numbness of conformity, and the painful legacy of