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Title	:	Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
Author	:	Kenzaburō Ōe
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 189 pages
Published	:	June 13th 1996 by Grove Press (first published 1958)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Asia. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Literature

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids Paperback | Pages: 189 pages

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Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wartime to a remote mountain village where they are feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee, blocking the boys inside the deserted town. Their brief attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love, and tribal valor is doomed in the face of death and the adult nightmare of war.

Details Books In Pursuance Of Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

Original Title:	芽むしり仔撃ち (Memushiri Kouchi)
ISBN:	0802134637 (ISBN13: 9780802134639)
Edition Language:	English

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Four stars is "really liked it". I didn't really like this book, but it is a four star book, so here we go.Have you ever read a book or watched a movie that you knew wasnt going to end well, but for some reason you stuck with it? You had a sinking feeling in your stomach that slowly hardened into a rock and just sat there, pressing down, letting you know that things were not going to be OK at the end. Bad things were coming. You know it, but youre going to stand here and watch.Thats this entire

The lost boys disease. Rabbits caught in the headlights and there will be no more tricks disease. Dogs humping legs fall right off disease. Roaches who might be indestructible for better or for worse disease. But who are the roaches (for better, or for worse)? The Japanese reform school boys or the contributing to my already bad image of hateful villagers types? Indestructible, anyway. (We could see who scurried away when the lights come back on.)The book blurb lies. The boys don't try to build

You know how there are food deserts? Well, there are literary deserts, too, and Oklahoma has always seemed to wear the title like a badge of honor. It has been bad for as long as I can remember, but between amazon and e-books wreaking havoc in my absence, I returned home to Planet of the Apes, wherein the apes are James Patterson novels and I'm the guy on the ground screaming about bastards. On Thursday, I attempted to find a book. Just one. Something, anything I had the slightest bit of

I'm giving 5 stars to the novel that I think this is. I've never read that novel. What I have read is the most bungled pile of cockney jabberwocky ever suffered to print--probably the single worst translation, of anything, that I have read, ever. It is so unbelievably bad. It reads like they crankshafted the Japanese through Google translator and shoveled the gibberish onto an ESL intern for remedial tidying. It is a complete embarrassment and Grove should be ashamed.I used to think that it was

Kenzaburo Oe is a writer who always leads me to cinematic analogies-- David Lynch and Takashi Miike, primarily-- so I'm gonna make another.What if you took the ragtag boys of The 400 Blows, and transferred them to the ruins of 1940s Japan? What if you added enough desperate gay sex in hovels to make Jean Genet blush, occupying soldiers, prison slave labor, fascist remnants, girls with their mothers' corpses, down-and-out Koreans trapped in Japan, and descriptions of flaccid penises?You'd have

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was Kenzaburo Oe's debut novel. First published when he was only 23, it draws on his experiences as a child during World War II. Some aspects of the plot - a group of boys abandoned during a war & left to look after themselves - invite comparisons to Lord of the Flies, but the similarities are merely superficial. I found Buds to be far more complex, nuanced and adult - an interesting, compelling, and sometimes difficult read. I read the English translation, which

Skimming through the reviews, this book is most notably compared to William Golding's Lord of the flies and for very good reason. There are many elements from this book which bring that to mind but I would also like to state that this book is more like Lord of the flies neat's night of the living Dead or Dawn of the Dead, the movies.I've been a fan of zombie movies for a long time. During one of the documentaries I was watching on the making of such I heard something that changed my whole