Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids - Hardcover

Oe, Kenzaburo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714529974 ISBN 13: 9780714529974

Verlag: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Kenzaburo Oe

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor

A novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author recounts the story of fifteen reform school boys evacuated to a remote mountain village in wartime and their doomed attempt to build lives of self-respect, love, and valor. IP.

Contraportada

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.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0714529974
• ISBN 13: 9780714529974
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 189