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Michael Wood, 4 April 1996
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by Paul St John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama.
Boyars, 189 pp., £14.95, May 1995,0 7145 2997 4 Show More
by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by Paul St John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama.
Boyars, 189 pp., £14.95, May 1995,
A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by John Nathan.
Picador, 165 pp., £5.99, January 1996,0 330 34435 8 Show More
by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by John Nathan.
Picador, 165 pp., £5.99, January 1996,
Hiroshima Notes
by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by David Swain and Toshi Yonezawa.
Boyars, 192 pp., £14.95, August 1995,0 7145 3007 7 Show More
by Kenzaburo Oë, translated by David Swain and Toshi Yonezawa.
Boyars, 192 pp., £14.95, August 1995,
“... Perhaps all books are messages from other times and places, even the ones written yesterday and just down the road. But these three works by Kenzaburo Oë, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994, have an unusual flavour of missives cast into the sea long ago, only now arriving on our island beach. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published in Japan in 1958, and is now translated for the first time ... ”
