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.
- ISBN:
- 9780867195996
- 9780867195996
- Category:
- Graphic Novels
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-03-2009
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Last Gasp of San Francisco
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 209.55x146.05x25.4mm
- Weight:
- 0.35kg
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