Nip the buds, shoot the kids
1st Grove Press pbk ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Mackintosh, Paul St. John. - Contributor
- Sugiyama, Maki. - Contributor
Publication
1996 - Grove Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
47,250 words, Guess
Page Count
189 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenipbudsshootkids00oeke
- Internet Archivenipbudsshootkids0000oeke
- ISBN-139780802134639
- ISBN-100802134637
- Goodreads501635
Classifications
- DDC895.6/35
- LCCPL858.E14 M413 1996
- LCCPL858.E14M413 1996
Description
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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