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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids Paperback - 1996

by Kenzaburo Oe; Paul St John Mackintosh (Translator); Maki Sugiyama (Translator)

Oe's dark musings on moral failure have come to symbolize an alienated generation in postwar Japan. This novel recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee, leaving the boys blockaded inside the empty village. The boys' brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love, and tribal valor fails in the face of death and the adult nightmare of war.


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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.

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  • Title Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
  • Author Kenzaburo Oe; Paul St John Mackintosh (Translator); Maki Sugiyama (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Grove Press
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-06-13
  • ISBN 9780802134639 / 0802134637
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1000
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Japanese
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96005839
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 08/04/1996, Page 28
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