Collection
Genres
Status
Available
Description
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.
Publication
New York : Grove Press, 1996.
ISBN
0802134637 / 9780802134639
Pages
189
Language
Original language
Japanese
Original publication date
1958