- Fiction, Juvenile delinquents, Teenage boys, Japan, fiction
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.
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Grave, earnest, prestige and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Kenzaburō Ōe
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Grove Press, Marion Boyars
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780714529974
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About Kenzaburō Ōe · 1935–2023
Nobel prize winning Japanese author
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