Author:Keiji, Nakazawa
- Volume One, A cartoon
story of Hiroshima
- Volume Two, The day after
- Volume Three, Life after
the bomb
- Volume Four, Out of the
ashes
- Volume Five, The
never-ending war
- Volume Six, Writing the
truth
- Volume Seven, Bones into
dust
- Volume Eight, Merchants of
death
- Volume Nine, Breaking down
borders
- Volume Ten, Never give
up
Citation: Novelist Database
Description:
A semi-autobiography about the
author’ life in Hiroshima city after the atomic bomb. Written in Manga style,
has been translated into many languages and animation movie. This graphic novel
is about the life of young boy, Gen who survived during the final months of
world war II, struggling to live in poverty. In the days of the bombing attack
Gen and his family witnessed the horrors and the ruin of the city, dead, and
severely burn. The life after the bomb, how the family reunited, the nation was
rebuilt conditionally under the American occupation. This is war from the
Japanese perspective which must be read comparatively to other international
point of views.
More information:
Barefoot Gen animation movie, 1983 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085218/?ref_=nv_sr_4
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Formats: print book, ebook, DVD video for Barefoot
Gen movie
Languages: Japanese, English, French, etc.