Author: Oe Kenzaburo
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Nip the buds, shoot the kids
In Japan during World War II a group of boys who are evacuated to the country take over a village when the inhabitants flee a plague. The novel describes the way the boys administer the village-breaking into homes for food, burying the dead, caring for the sick-and what happens when the villagers return. By the…
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Hiroshima notes
Hiroshima Notes is a moving statement from Japan’s most celebrated living writer on the meaning of the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy. Kenzaburo Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima – the young, the old, women and children – and the valiant efforts of the doctors who care for them,…