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Barefoot Gen Volume 8 : Merchants of Death
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780867195996
- ISBN-10: 0867195991
- Publisher: Last Gasp
- Publish Date: March 2009
- Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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