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 |