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Book Review of Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids

Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids
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First published 1958, translated by Paul St. John Mackintosh and Maki Sugiyama in 1985, this edition published 1996. Trade-sized paperback. Story of 15 reformatory boys evacuated to a remote mountain village during wartime. Maybe it's a Japanese "Lord of the Flies"?