Name: nip the buds shoot the kids
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Author: Oe, Kenzaburo ; St John Mackintosh, Paul ; Sugiyama, Maki
ISBN: 9780802134639

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kenzaburo Oe

Translated by

Maki Sugiyama

Paul St John Mackintosh

Publisher

Grove Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 14.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN

0802134637

ISBN13

9780802134639

Synopsis "nip the buds shoot the kids"

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.

Kenzaburo Oe

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Kenzaburo Oe (Ōse, Shikoku, 1935 - 2023) was an influential Japanese writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994. He moved to Tokyo in 1954 to study French Literature at the University of Tokyo, where he was influenced by Sartre and existentialist philosophy. His extensive work, marked by existential anguish, post-Hiroshima Japanese identity, and the experience with his son Hikari's disability, merges grotesque realism with profound humanism. Ōe was a fierce critic of Japanese militarism and an advocate for pacifist values. His literature, often dark but always hopeful, explores human fragility and resilience in the face of the absurd.

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