Nip the buds, shoot the kids
Oe, Kenzaburo, 1935-
Nip the buds, shoot the kids / Kenzaburo Oe ; translated and introduced by Paul St. John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama. - London ; New York : Marion Boyars , 1995. - 189 p. ; 23 cm.
Available for the first time in English, this first novel by the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature is assured an audience both among those who are familiar with Oe's work and eagerly await the translations that will inevitably follow the awarding of the prize and those who are newly aware of Oe as a major literary figure and wish to sample the range of his work. For the latter group, this assured translation of a novel published in 1958 when Oe was a young student makes a wonderful starting point. A stark, sometimes disturbing tale of a group of young reform school youths being relocated in war-torn Japan, the simple story breathes with mythic intensity and hints at the wealth of untapped expressive power in Oe. An added bonus is a fine introduction that gives a succinct factual and theoretical overview of Oe and his work.
Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1994
9780714529974
94040897
Teenage boys----Fiction
Juvenile deliquents----Fiction
Japan---Fiction
Adventure stories
PL858.E14 / M413 1995
FIC OE
Nip the buds, shoot the kids / Kenzaburo Oe ; translated and introduced by Paul St. John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama. - London ; New York : Marion Boyars , 1995. - 189 p. ; 23 cm.
Available for the first time in English, this first novel by the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature is assured an audience both among those who are familiar with Oe's work and eagerly await the translations that will inevitably follow the awarding of the prize and those who are newly aware of Oe as a major literary figure and wish to sample the range of his work. For the latter group, this assured translation of a novel published in 1958 when Oe was a young student makes a wonderful starting point. A stark, sometimes disturbing tale of a group of young reform school youths being relocated in war-torn Japan, the simple story breathes with mythic intensity and hints at the wealth of untapped expressive power in Oe. An added bonus is a fine introduction that gives a succinct factual and theoretical overview of Oe and his work.
Winner, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1994
9780714529974
94040897
Teenage boys----Fiction
Juvenile deliquents----Fiction
Japan---Fiction
Adventure stories
PL858.E14 / M413 1995
FIC OE
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