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Oe's dark musings on moral failure have come to symbolize an
alienated generation in postwar Japan. This novel recounts the
exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated to a remote
mountain village in wartime. When plague breaks out, the villagers
flee, leaving the boys blockaded inside the empty village. The
boys' brief, doomed attempt to build autonomous lives of
self-respect, love, and tribal valor fails in the face of death and
the adult nightmare of war.
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