false 5719353 1 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 U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. 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 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. 5890970 9 3 2009 Barefoot Gen 8: Merchants of Death total:3|5:2|4:1| 3 14 17 1 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 17:54:58 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 09:23:28 -0700 2009 1 0 0 false false Mon Nov 30 04:35:02 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 30 04:35:02 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 29 09:24:27 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 09:24:27 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 27 17:54:27 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 17:54:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 18:28:06 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 18:28:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 06 07:41:37 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 07:41:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 19 14:23:47 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 14:23:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 17 08:44:30 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 08:44:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Sep 05 21:06:03 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 21:06:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 03 11:13:43 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 11:13:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 12 19:12:55 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 19:12:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 14 15:45:44 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 15:45:44 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 11:07:23 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 11:07:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 03 11:57:42 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 11:57:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Apr 21 17:06:51 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 17:06:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Apr 21 08:57:23 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 08:57:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 28 13:21:08 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 13:21:08 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5719353