| Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids Contributor(s): Oe, Kenzaburo (Author), St John Mackintosh, Paul (Translator), Sugiyama, Maki (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0802134637 ISBN-13: 9780802134639 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96005839 |
| Lexile Measure: 1000 |
| Series: OE, Kenzaburo |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.40 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |