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A group of 15 teenaged reform school boys get abandoned in a village after the residents fear an oncoming plague. This short Japanese novel was originally published in the late 1950s but could easily have been written more recently. The boys attempt to make their own way and establish their own community with what they've been left but they are always under the shadow of war and the plague.
I am glad that I picked this one up. It was a relatively quick and easy read despite the often heavy subje ...more
I am glad that I picked this one up. It was a relatively quick and easy read despite the often heavy subje ...more
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kid Kenzaburo Oe
Perhaps if I had known that the alternative translation of the title of this book is Pluck the Bud, Destroy the Offspring I would not have expected a satirical guide to child rearing. Instead I was bombarded by a searingly brutal tale of reformatory boys in wartime Japan subjected to unbelievable cruelty by their wardens, and subsequently by the villagers in the hamlet to which they were evacuated. Oe writes so vividly that you can almost taste the dirt in ...more
Dec 21, 2011
Judith
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Amanda Dawn
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Kyle Mahoney
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Feb 19, 2018
Sabrina
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Sep 15, 2020
Kristel
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Oct 31, 2020
Jamie Barringer (Ravenmount)
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