A review by masonanddixon
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe

Don't normally write reviews here, but the ending caught me off guard. Most of this seemed a Japanese Lord of The Flies, albeit ever so slightly more hopeful and carried along by a dreamy, unreliable narrator, but the ending, that's some grade A, artfully crafted hopelessness. Yikes.