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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.
Kenzaburo Oe
Kenzaburo Oe was a Nobel literature laureate. In 1994 he became the second Japanese author to be awarded this Nobel Prize for literature. Oe, the third of seven children, was born January 31, 1935, in a village on Japan¿s southern island of Shikoku. At the University of Tokyo, he studied French literature and began writing plays. He died on March 3, 2023 of old age.
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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.
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Kenzaburo Oe
Kenzaburo Oe was a Nobel literature laureate. In 1994 he became the second Japanese author to be awarded this Nobel Prize for literature. Oe, the third of seven children, was born January 31, 1935, in a village on Japan¿s southern island of Shikoku. At the University of Tokyo, he studied French literature and began writing plays. He died on March 3, 2023 of old age.
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