The Sea and Poison - Shusaku Endo Because how do you decide

Because how do you decide what makes life worth living

political and social past

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

This is Alexei Navalny’s life in his own words: his Soviet childhood

The Sea and Poison - Shusaku Endo Because how do you decideIn 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 Quiet and withdrawn, he lives tortured by his conscience and a horrific wartime memory: participating in the vivisection of an American airman, an experiment which led to his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