by Kenzaburo Oe, Paul St. John Mackintosh (Translator)
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wartime to a remote mountain village where they are feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee, blocking the boys inside the deserted town. Their brief attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love, and tribal valor is doomed in the face of death and the adult nightmare of war.
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today." He is the author of numerous books, including The Changeling; Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age; Hiroshima Notes; A Personal Matter; Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness; and The Silent Cry, among others.
ISBN-13: 9780802134639
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Publication date: 06/13/1996
Series: Oe, Kenzaburo
Pages: 192
- Historical - Friendship
- Literary -Fiction- Asian - Japanese