Keiji Nakazawa
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 1
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 2
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 3
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 6
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Volume six of a series of graphic novels based on the artist's experience of the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath.
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 4
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This volume resumes 9 days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, water, and shelter amid chaos and vast human suffering. Though confronted with the most despicable aspects of humankind, Gen acts with love and compassion.
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 7
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"By volume seven, Gen has grown old enough to think about the legacy of the victims of the atomic bombing. Picking up from volume six, the story opens with Gen searching for a printer willing to publish an eyewitness account of the bombing written by 'Papa,' the journalist who serves as a father figure to Gen's war orphan friends. By hook and crook Gen and Ryuta manage to get the book printed and distributed, only to arouse the wrath of U.S. Army...
Author
Series
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1953. Now an apprentice sign painter, Gen has become a skilled artist, while his friends run a thriving dressmaking business. Gen falls in love for the first time, but fails to notice that a good friend has been caught in the clutches of drug addiction. Heartbreak and loss await Gen as the atomic bomb continues to wreak havoc on the lives of people in Hiroshima years after the fact. Yet these tragedies also inspire Gen to make the big...
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 5
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 8
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Volume eight opens in 1950. 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 of drugs and the arms industry on postwar Hiroshima society. With the Korean War offering new business opportunities, a new generation of...
Author
Series
Barefoot Gen volume 9
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Last Gasp of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Life in Hiroshima during the war was difficult for six-year-old Keiji and the Nakazawa family, but they made the best of it. On his way to school one bright August morning, Keiji was unaware his hometown would soon be turned into a world of horrors. That morning, he watched as a single airplane soared through the clear blue sky, carrying with it the most powerful weapon that had ever been created, the atomic bomb, code named "Little Boy." It was...
