Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
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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.When plague breaks out, their host abandon them and flee. However, the boys's brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love and tribal valour inevitably fail in the reflux of death and the adult nightmare of war.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780714529974 |
Publisher: | Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd |
Imprint: | Marion Boyars |
Pub date: | 16 Oct 2000 |
DEWEY: | 895.635 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 189 |
Weight: | 316g |
Height: | 217mm |
Width: | 142mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |