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Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids - Kenzaburō Ōe
Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids
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The first novel by Japan's most distinguished writer, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature, Kenzaburo Oe. Nip the Buds recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote village in wartime. [fiction][multi-cultural]
The first novel by Japan's most distinguished writer, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature, Kenzaburo Oe. Nip the Buds recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote village in wartime. [fiction][multi-cultural]
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780714529974 (0714529974)
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Pages no: 189
Edition language: English
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Drobna uwaga. Na pewno umrzecie.
Drobna uwaga. Na pewno umrzecie. rated it
4.0 Zerwać pąki, zabić dzieci
Ta niewielka książeczka pełna jest krzywdy, bólu i okrucieństwa. Dorośli przepełnieni strachem i kłamstwem, którzy powinni być odpowiedzialni, stają się oprawcami, mając za ofiary dzieci. W nieludzkich warunkach, w obawie przed zarazą uwydatnione jest zezwierzęcenie człowieka. Porównanie jej do 'Wła...
Bettie's Books
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2.0 Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
bookshelves: fraudio, summer-2013, japan, nobel-laureate, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, translation, published-1958, plague-disease, slit-yer-wrists-gloomy, wwii, ouch, lifestyles-deathstyles, debut, next Read from August 14 to 18, 2013 gboxNarrated by Eduardo BalleriniOne wouldn't want to g...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
2.0 Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
gboxNarrated by Eduardo BalleriniOne wouldn't want to grapple with this if on a downer, you know, the back yard filled with black dogs and storms torrenting within the four walls of one's chest; this is human misery on a stick.
carac
carac rated it
4.0 Zerwać pąki, zabić dzieci
Już sam tytuł tej krótkiej powieści jest nieco szokujący. No bo jak to "zabić dzieci"? A no tak... Książka o zabijaniu wrażliwości. Pełna zimnych barw, szarych, wilgotnych miejsc pokrytych śniegiem, na którym kapiąca krew szybko zmienia barwę na brunatną. Nie ma tu współczucia, jest metaliczny blask...
Books by the Lake
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4.0 Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
This is a harsh tale, and the first-person narration is written in short, hard sentences, in simple blunt words, very corporeal, unsparing of ugly bodily details; emotions are depicted simply, mostly harsh emotions, but allowing for moments of joy and tenderness. It's an unusual style, over the cour...
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