Nip the buds, shoot the kids
ISBN: | 0714529974, 9780714529974 |
OCLC Number: | 31517641 |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
Author: | Kenzaburo Oe |
Translator: | Paul St. John Mackintosh, Maki Sugiyama |
Language: | en |
Publisher: | Grove Press, 1994, 1996; Marion Boyars, 1995 |
Publication Place: | New York; London, New York |
Japanese Copyright Year: | 1958 |
English Publication Date: | 1994 |
Notes: | Japanese title: Memushiri kouchi |
Abstract: | In Japan during World War II a group of boys who are evacuated to the country take over a village when the inhabitants flee a plague. The novel describes the way the boys administer the village-breaking into homes for food, burying the dead, caring for the sick-and what happens when the villagers return. By the author of The Silent Cry. |
Subjects: | Adventure stories Japan, Fiction Japanese fiction Juvenile delinquents, Fiction Kenzaburo Oe, Translations into English Teenage boys, Fiction |