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Barefoot Gen Volume 8|Keiji Nakazawa
Barefoot Gen Volume 8 : Merchants of Death
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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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  • 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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