Barefoot Gen, Volume 4: Out of the Ashes

by Keiji Nakazawa

Overview

Barefoot Gen Volume Four ―"Out of the Ashes" ―resumes nine days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter and water amid chaos and vast human suffering. Though confronted with the most despicable aspects of humankind, Gen acts with love and compassion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780867195958
Publisher:	Last Gasp of San Francisco
Publication date:	10/30/2005
Series:	Barefoot Gen Series , #4
Pages:	281
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

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.

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"This vivid and harrowing tale will?burn a radioavtive crater in your memory that will never let you forget it. Gen is one of those very few commix that actually pulls off the essential magic trick--those little marks on paper come to fully realized life."