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A review by y_nk
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburō Ōe
4.0
No one is surprised, but this book remains after three quarters of a century a damning indictment of the senseless violence and selfishness a nation can demonstrate against its children, which is a sequence that seems to play itself out again and again in history.
« ‘They kill each other,’ Li said, filled with hatred. ‘We hid him, but the Japanese kill each other. The MPs, the constables and the peasants with their bamboo spears; a load of people hunt down those who’ve got away into the mountains and stab them to death. I don’t understand what they do. »
« ‘They kill each other,’ Li said, filled with hatred. ‘We hid him, but the Japanese kill each other. The MPs, the constables and the peasants with their bamboo spears; a load of people hunt down those who’ve got away into the mountains and stab them to death. I don’t understand what they do. »