Barefoot Gen Volume 8: Merchants of Death (Paperback)
$16.95
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Other Books in Series
This is book number 8 in the Barefoot Gen series.
- #1: Barefoot Gen Volume 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima (Paperback): $16.95
- #2: Barefoot Gen Volume 2: The Day After (Paperback): $16.95
- #3: Barefoot Gen Volume 3: Life After the Bomb (Paperback): $16.95
- #4: Barefoot Gen Volume 4: Out of the Ashes (Paperback): $16.95
- #5: Barefoot Gen Volume 5: The Never-Ending War (Paperback): $16.95
- #6: Barefoot Gen, Volume 6: Writing the Truth (Paperback): $16.95
- #7: Barefoot Gen Volume 7: Bones Into Dust (Paperback): $16.95
- #9: Barefoot Gen Volume 9: Breaking Down Borders (Paperback): $16.95
- #10: Barefoot Gen Volume 10: Never Give Up (Paperback): $16.95
Description
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.
