num_pages: 189
description: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wartime to a remote mountain village where they are feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee, blocking the boys inside the deserted town. Their brief attempt to build autonomous lives of self-respect, love, and tribal valor is doomed in the face of death and the adult nightmare of war.
language: English
title: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
titlecomplete: Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
genres: Fiction, Japan, Classics, Japanese Literature, Nobel Prize, War, Asia, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 4695
publisher: Grove Press