Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

novel by Ōe Kenzaburō

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  • Ōe Kenzaburō
    In Ōe Kenzaburō

    …first novel, Memushiri kouchi (1958; Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids), was highly praised, and he won a major literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, for Shiiku (1958; The Catch). But his second novel, Warera no jidai (1959; “Our Age”), was poorly received, as his contemporaries felt that Ōe was becoming…

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