Title:
Nip the buds, shoot the kids
JLCTITLE245:
Kenzaburō Ōe ; translated and introduced by Paul St. John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama.
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Uniform Title:
Memushiri kouchi. English
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Marion Boyars, 1995.
Physical Description:
189 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780714529974
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.
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