| #1205475 in Books | Last Gasp | 2010-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.00 x5.50l,.78 | File type: PDF | 272 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Gen gains a glimpse of his future life as an artist and puts behind him the horrors of the atomic blast|By F. Orion Pozo|The Barefoot Gen series documents the life of young Gen Nakaoka of Hiroshima starting when he is six years old in the summer of 1945 when the USA dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Volume 9 takes place at the end of 1950 and through 1951. Gen is now 12 years
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 home, the death of a fri...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Barefoot Gen, Vol. 9: Breaking Down Borders | Keiji Nakazawa.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
