Barefoot Gen, Volume 8: Merchants of Death

by Keiji Nakazawa

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780867195996
Publisher:	Last Gasp of San Francisco
Publication date:	03/01/2009
Series:	Barefoot Gen Series , #8
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	380,507
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(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.

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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