Keiji Nakazawa
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 2
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Barefoot Gen is the powerful, tragic, autobiographical story of the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath, seen through the eyes of the artist as a young boy growing up in Japan. The honest portrayal of emotions and experiences speaks to children and adults everywhere. Barefoot Gen serves as a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people, and as a unique documentaion of an especially horrible source of suffering, the atomic bomb. This...
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 3
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 6
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 4
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Volume 4 resumes after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter, and water amid chaos and vast human suffering.
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 8
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 10
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"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 make the big...
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 9
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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 United States. Starting a few months before that event, his ten-volume saga Barefoot Gen shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. In Volume Nine, Gen continues to confront one setback after another -- the loss of his...
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 7
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Gen finds a printer willing to print the eyewitness account "Papa" has written. When it has been printed and distributed, the U.S. Army censors become angry and teach them a difficult lesson. When Koji, Gen's brother finally returns home, he finds their mother on her deathbed.
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 5
Publisher
Last Gasp
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The fifth volume in the "Barefoot Gen" series, this is the powerful, tragic story of the bombing of Hiroshima, seen through the eyes of the artist as a young boy growing up in Japan. Focusing not only on the effects of the bombing, Barefoot Gen also examines the ethical dilemmas faced by a peace-loving family in a highly militarized culture.
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