Ayako Sono
Autore di No Reason for Murder
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: By Unknown - Japanese magazine "The Mainichi Graphic, 15 January 1956 issue" published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co.,Ltd., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35687538
Opere di Ayako Sono
木枯しの庭 3 copie
誰のために愛するか 2 copie
曽野綾子の好奇心対談 2 copie
愛の証明 2 copie
無名碑 2 copie
人間の罠 2 copie
片隅の二人 2 copie
遠来の客たち: 他八篇 2 copie
木枯しの庭 1 copia
Others Do Not Know Me 1 copia
火山列島 1 copia
円型水槽 1 copia
一条の光 1 copia
生命ある限り 下 1 copia
Zanshó ni tatsu (残照に立つ) 1 copia
春の飛行 = harunohiko 1 copia
片隅の二人 = katasuminofutari 1 copia
わが恋の墓標 = wagakoinobohyo 1 copia
Love (Destruction of Love) 爱的破灭 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Sono, Ayako
- Data di nascita
- 1931-09-17
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Japan
- Luogo di nascita
- Japan
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 155
- Utenti
- 347
- Popolarità
- #68,853
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 141
- Lingue
- 2
Sono shows the complexity of a physician practicing Sadaharu’s specialty in a time when abortion is legal and people are particularly sensitive to how they appear to others. While the Japanese may have a highly evolved set of behaviors to regulate their persona before others, as is seen in James Clavell’s Shogun, I felt the behavior of the characters portrayed in Sono’s book was universal. I have seen some of it first-hand, and if we looked deeply within our culture I’m certain we would find examples of the extremes presented here.
As an OB/GYN, Sadaharu finds both the bringing forth of life and the ending of it to be all in a day’s work. He does not have any feelings of conscience regarding the practice of abortion and finds that the roughly 200 he performs per year to be essential to the financial health of his practice. There is a caveat though, as on the rare occasion where he performs a late-term abortion. It is a practice he avoids due to its risks of complication, but he also finds it to be on the very edge of killing an actual human being.
For Sadaharu, the fetus is not human if it can survive outside the womb, and he has no qualms about abortions earlier in a pregnancy. He also has no reservations about choosing abortion in cases of suspected birth defects, for the sake of convenience, or to preserve social standing. True-to-form, he keeps these opinions to himself, sharing them only with a close friend when he has had too much to drink.
There are some interesting turns of plot here, particularly within Sadaharu’s marriage and his friendships with an older widowed woman and the Catholic priest she introduces him to. In his conversations with the woman, who is Catholic, and the priest, we learn that Sadaharu’s main goal in life is to preserve the homeostasis he lives in, i.e. maintaining his personal comfort with minimal effort. It is a goal that can’t last.
As Sadaharu moves through this season of his life he finds himself thinking, pondering the possibility of a reference point in life outside of himself. Does he find one? We don’t know. In Sono’s tale of a man with the barest sense of personal ethics she invites us to consider our own ethical framework, trusting that in so doing we’ll discern that life is about more than just us. Much more.… (altro)