Name: barefoot gen 8,merchants of death
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Author: Nakazawa, Keiji
ISBN: 9780867195996

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Keiji Nakazawa

Publisher

Last Gasp

Language

English

Pages

270

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 14.5 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN

0867195991

ISBN13

9780867195996

Synopsis "barefoot gen 8,merchants of death"

Barefoot Gen Volume Eight ―"Merchants of Death" ― It's 1950 and Gen is now in middle school, where he meets both a progressive-minded schoolteacher at odds with his conservative superiors, and a brilliant but cynical classmate who challenges the teacher's -- and Gen's -- values at every turn. Gen also finds himself confronting the corrosive effects on postwar Hiroshima society of drugs and the arms industry. With the Korean War offering new business opportunities, a new generation of death merchants holds sway in Japan. Gen, his teacher mentor, and other peace-minded citizens are forced to struggle against red-baiting school officials, violent nationalists, and government censorship.

Keiji Nakazawa

(Author)

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(Hiroshima, 1939 - Tokyo, 2012) was six years old when the atomic bomb exploded, and all his family died except his mother. In 1961, Nakazawa moved to Tokyo where he worked as a cartoonist and created his first short mangas. After his mother's death in 1966, he depicted the destruction and chaos of Hiroshima in his stories. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete (Struck by Black Rain), was the first of five mangas he made about the story of the Hiroshima survivors. The most famous of all these works is Barefoot Gen: A Hiroshima Story, a long series of nearly three thousand pages starring a boy who survives the atomic terror.

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