description: Shusaku Endo's most disquieting novel and a masterful study of individual and collective moral disintegration. Set in a Japanese hospital during the last days of the Second World War, the story centres on the medical staff who offer to assist in a series of vivisections, experimental operations on live American prisoners of war.
language: English
title: The Sea and Poison
titlecomplete: The Sea and Poison (Unesco Collection of Contemporary Works)
genres: Japan, Asian Literature, Fiction, World War II, Literature, Historical Fiction, War, Classics, Japanese Literature, Historical
ratings_count: 1440
publisher: Owen