Issue Description

Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. Volume Four 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. This is an all-new translation, with new lettering.

Barefoot Gen (2004)

Publisher

Last Gasp

Volume Description

A 10 part-series that is loosely based on Keiji Nakazawa's own experience as a Hiroshima survivor of the atom bomb. The series is about a six-year-old boy named Gen Nakaoka living with his family in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. After Hiroshima is destroyed by the bomb, Gen and other survivors are left to deal with the aftermath.

English translation of the Japanese manga Barefoot Gen.

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