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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids Hardcover - 1995

by Oe, Kenzaburo

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This first novel by Japan's most celebrated living writer recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime. When plague breaks out, and their hosts abandon them, the boys' brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect inevitably fails.

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Boyars Publishers, Incorporated, Marion. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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  • Title Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
  • Author Oe, Kenzaburo
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 189
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Boyars Publishers, Incorporated, Marion, London
  • Date 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP89110081
  • ISBN 9780714529974 / 0714529974
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.6 x 0.79 in (23.11 x 14.22 x 2.01 cm)
  • Reading level 1000
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Adventure stories, Teenage boys - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-40897
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the rear cover

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.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/1995, Page 1481
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/1995, Page 261
  • Library Journal, 03/01/1995, Page 90
  • New York Times, 07/09/1995, Page 8
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/27/1995, Page 73

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