Bibliograph

Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa ; translated by Project Gen, V. 8

Type

Label

Barefoot Gen, Keiji Nakazawa ; translated by Project Gen, V. 8

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Barefoot Gen

Nature of contents

comics graphic novels

Oclc number

262433186

Responsibility statement

Keiji Nakazawa ; translated by Project Gen

Summary

"Volume eight opens in 1950. 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 of drugs and the arms industry on postwar Hiroshima society. With the Korean War offering new business opportunities, a new generation of death merchants holds sway in Japan. Gen, his mentor, and peace-minded citizens are forced to struggle against red-baiting school officials, violent nationalists, and government censorship"--P. [4] of cover

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Barefoot Gen, Merchants of deathMerchants of death

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