Barefoot Gen. [Volume one] : a cartoon story of Hiroshima

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 documentation of an especially horrible source of suffering, the atomic bomb. This is part one of a ten-part series. Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, Japan. Spring 1945. Six-year-old Gen Nakaoka lives with his father—who is adamantly opposed to the war that is claiming the lives of so many of his fellow countrymen—his mother, his sister Eiko, and his younger brother Shinji; his two older brothers, Akira and Koji, have evacuated to the country and gone to work in the munitions factories, respectively. As Gen's father becomes increasingly outspoken against the war, he is labeled as a traitor to the Empire along with Gen and the rest of his family. All around them, friends and neighbors, teachers and classmates, turn against the Nakaoka family. The war effort has already made food scarce, but surviving in a poor household among few friends and hundreds of enemies proves to be an ordeal like none that the generally playful Gen has faced before. His life is being turned inside out, but neither Gen nor any of the people in Hiroshima could imagine the horror that the coming August will bring... A now-classic manga, *Hadashi no Gen* (*Barefoot Gen*) is based on author Keiji Nakazawa’s own experiences as a young boy in Hiroshima at the end of World War II. Gen's tale is a deep, harrowing read about the effects of war on a civilian population and what it takes to survive in a world on fire. This edition uses a translation by Project Gen, a team of volunteers formed in the 1970s with the mission of providing a complete English translation of *Hadashi no Gen* so that a wider audience around the world could read its message. An All-new, Unabridged Translation Of Keiji Nakazawa's Account Of The Hiroshima Bombing And Its Aftermath, Drawn From His Own Experiences. In This Memoir, Six Year Old Gen Has Lived Practically His Entire Life In The Shadow Of War, Yet He Is Not Prepared For The Horrors Which Follow. The Graphic Novel Provide An Honest And Emotional Portrayal Of The Various Struggles Of His Family And Other Survivors Against Overwhelming Odds. Introductory Essays Adding Additional Information. V. 1. [without Special Title] -- V. 2. The Day After -- V. 3. Life After The Bomb -- V. 4. Out Of The Ashes -- V. 5. The Never-ending War -- V. 6. Writing The Truth -- V. 7. Bones Into Dust -- V. 8. Merchants Of Death. Keiji Nakazawa ; Translated By Project Gen. Translation Of: Hadashi No Gen. First Serialized In Japan 1972-1973. All New Translation With An Introduction By Art Spiegelman--cover. Edited By Alan Gleason And Colin Turner. The reissue of this classic manga's first volume has impeccable timing. It recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities) ring chillingly true today. Despite its harrowing nature, this work is invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion. It was published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing An all-new, unabridged translation of Keiji Nakazawa's account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath, drawn from his own experiences. In this memoir, six year old Gen has lived practically his entire life in the shadow of war, yet he is not prepared for the horrors which follow. The graphic novel provides an honest and emotional portrayal of the various struggles of his family and other survivors against overwhelming odds. Introductory essays add additional information This harrowing story of Hiroshima was one of the original Japanese manga series. New and unabridged, this is an all-new translation of the author's first-person experiences of Hiroshima and its aftermath, is a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people. Its emotions and experiences speak to children and adults everywhere. Volume one of this ten-part series details the events leading up to and immediately following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In this graphic depiction of nuclear devastation, three survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima--Gen, his mother, and his baby sister--face rejection, hunger, and humiliation in their search for a place to live WHEAT PUSHES ITS SHOOTS UP THROUGH THE WINTER FROST, ONLY TO BE STEPPED ON AGAIN AND AGAIN...