Mel U from The Reading Life recently reviewed Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenazabuo Oe for the WWII reading challenge. Here’s an excerpt:
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids is a wonderful novel, not just a wonderful first novel. We are never told when or really where the story is set but it is clear that it is intended to be seen as Japan in WWII. I think the setting is not precisely particularized so it can be viewed as a story of war anywhere and of the throw away victims of war. This includes children and in too many cases the morals of the survivors are also essentially a casualty also.
Read the rest of his review here.
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