
Books / Reviews | ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES Jul 8, 2017
'The Sea and Poison': Shusaku Endo dissects the human capacity for evil
by Damian Flanagan
This 1957 novel has at its heart Shusaku Endo's fascination with a seemingly tranquil and civilized postwar Japan still traumatized by the horrors of the Pacific War. Even a harmless-looking gas station attendant might be a grizzled war veteran involved in brutal killings on ...