Nip the buds, shoot the kids
Oe, Kenzaburo1996
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Fifteen reformatory boys, evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime, are feared and detested by local peasants. When plague breaks out, their hosts abandon them and the boys must try to build autonomous lives of self-respect and tribal valour.
Main title:
Nip the buds, shoot the kids / Kenzaburo Oe ; translated and introduced by Paul St. John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama.
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Imprint:
London : Picador, 1996.
Collation:
189p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: London: Marion Boyars, 1995.Translation of: Memushiri kouchi.
ISBN:
9780330347297 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishJapanese
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BRN:
74872