Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids
Author: Kenzaburō Ōe
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.When plague breaks out, their host abandon them and flee. However, the boys’s brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love and tribal valour inevitably fai….Read More
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