The Sea and Poison - Shusaku Endo Presenting over a thousand exemplars

Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and engaging translations

guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters

his titanic and poetic personality

In recounting his memories with intimate narrative force (not forgetting his own personal passions)

drawn back as if responding to the city’s obscure magnetism

The Sea and Poison - Shusaku Endo Presenting over a thousand exemplarsIn 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 Quiet and withdrawn, he lives tortured by his conscience and a horrific wartime memory: participating in the vivisection of an American airman, an experiment which led to his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