Along with "The Catch" and Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness, he wrote about a group of boys from a reformatory school, who are trapped in a town infected by rotting animal carcasses in Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids.
The protagonist of one of his works is nearly thrown into the water of the zoo's polar bear exhibit before the "fat man" rejects his mother's claims that he has syphilis, and in another story a boy brings food to a giant black man, who is imprisoned after his plane crashes. Along with "The Catch" and Teach us to Outgrow Our Madness, he wrote about a group of boys from a reformatory school, who are trapped in a town infected by rotting animal carcasses in Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids. In one of his works Himiko's plans to move to Africa are rejected by Bird, who instead decides to care for his son born with a brain tumor, and in another novel Mitsusaboro remembers his friend, who committed suicide after painting his face red and pushing a cucumber up his ass. FTP, name this Japanese author, of A Personal Matter and The Silent Cry.
The protagonist of one of his works is nearly thrown into the water of the zoo's polar bear exhibit before the "fat man" rejects his mother's claims that he has syphilis, and in another story a boy brings food to a giant black man, who is imprisoned after his plane crashes.
Kenzaburo Oe