Author: Kenzaburo Oe
Year: 1958
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Culture: Japan
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9780802134639
0802134637 |
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In Japan during World War II a group of boys who are evacuated to the country take over a village when the inhabitants flee a plague. The novel describes the way the boys administer the village--breaking into homes for food, burying the dead, caring for the sick--and what happens when the villagers return. By the author of The Silent Cry.
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