Barefoot Gen, Vol. 8: Merchants of Death

Type

Book

Authors

Keiji Nakazawa

ISBN 10

0867195991

ISBN 13

9780867195996

Tags

Japan, Pacific War, Hiroshima, Manga

Description

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. - from Amzon

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