Barefoot Gen, Volume 10: Never Give Up

by Keiji Nakazawa

Overview

Barefoot Gen Volume Ten ― "Never Give Up" ― The year is 1953. Now an apprentice sign painter, Gen has become a skilled artist, while his friends run a thriving dressmaking business. Gen falls in love for the first time, but fails to notice that a good friend has been caught in the clutches of drug addiction. Heartbreak and loss await Gen as the atomic bomb continues to wreak havoc on the lives of people in Hiroshima years after the fact. Yet these tragedies also inspire Gen to move to Tokyo to pursue his career as an artist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780867196016
Publisher:	Last Gasp of San Francisco
Publication date:	11/01/2009
Series:	Barefoot Gen Series , #10
Pages:	354
Sales rank:	380,520
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima, and was six years old when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. All of his family members who had not been evacuated died in the bombing, except for his mother, and an infant sister who died several weeks after the bombing. Compelled to tell his story in the memory of his family, Keiji Nakazawa is best known for his epic tragic history Barefoot Gen.

Editorial Reviews

"Highly recommended for older readers and for all libraries." — The Library Journal

"Invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion." — Publishers Weekly

"This vivid and harrowing story will...burn a radioactive crater in your memory that will never let you forget it. Gen is one of those few comix that actually pulls off the essential magic trick... those little marks on paper come to fully-realized life." — Art Spiegelman

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