Barefoot Gen Volume Two

The Day After

Paperback, 240 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2004 by Last Gasp.

ISBN:
978-0-86719-619-1
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Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, Japan. 6 August 1945. The city is on fire, its structures flattened, its citizens vaporised. Gen Nakaoka has just witnessed the deaths of his father, sister, and younger brother as they burned alive, trapped under the ruins of their house. Gen's mother survived and gave birth to a new baby girl, but even the newborn is in danger: Mrs. Nakaoka is starving and unable to produce milk for her baby. It is up to Gen to find rice to feed to his mother. But all around him is death, wrought by the Americans' atomic bomb. Corpses litter the ground, and barely-alive bomb victims with half-melted skin wander the ruins of their city, crying out for water to soothe their scorched throats. In this new hell, how can Gen possibly find hope, let alone a bowl of rice…?

A now-classic manga, Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen) …

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  • Comic book & cartoon art
  • Graphic Novels
  • History
  • Fiction
  • Cartoons and caricatures
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
  • Hiroshima (Japan)
  • Graphic Novels - General
  • Bombardment, 1945
  • Graphic Novels - Manga
  • Historical - General
  • Comic books, strips, etc