Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe

The first novel by Japan's most celebrated living writer, Nip The Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of fifteen teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. The narrator who acts as nominal leader of the small band, his younger brother and their comrades are all delinquent outcasts, feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, their hosts abandon them and flee, then blockade them inside the empty village, together with a young Korean, an army deserter and a girl evacuee. However, the boys' brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love and tribal valour inevitably fails with the reflux of death and the adult nightmare of war.
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ISBN 13 9780714529974
ISBN 10 0714529974
Title Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Author Kenzaburo Oe
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Year published 2000-10-16
Number of pages 189
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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