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Barefoot Gen Volume 8: Merchants of Death
Contributor(s): Nakazawa, Keiji (Author)

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 ISBN: 0867195991     ISBN-13: 9780867195996
Publisher: Last Gasp
OUR PRICE: $14.41  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical - World War Ii
Dewey: FIC
Series: Barefoot Gen
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.1" L (0.80 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Nakazawa, Keiji: - Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima, and was six years old when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. All of his family members who had not been evacuated died in the bombing, except for his mother, and an infant sister who died several weeks after the bombing. Compelled to tell his story in the memory of his family, Keiji Nakazawa is best known for his epic tragic history Barefoot Gen.
 
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