Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
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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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780714529974 |
| ISBN 10 | 0714529974 |
| Title | Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids |
| Author | Kenzaburo Oe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |