Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids (First U.K. Edition)

Kenzaburo Oe (author); Paul St John Mackintosh; Maki Sugiyama (translators, introduction)

ISBN 10: 0714529974 / ISBN 13: 9780714529974

Published by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, London, 2000

About this Item

First printing of the first U.K. edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($22.95, £14.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Faint foxing on top and side edge of an otherwise beautiful copy. Fictio0n-O.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2167

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids (First U.K. Edition)
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714529974
• ISBN 13: 9780714529974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Japanese Literature
  • World War Two

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Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

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.