Barefoot Gen Volume 8: Merchants of Death

by Keiji Nakazawa and Rosi L. Simamora

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867195991
• ISBN13: 9780867195996
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Last Gasp
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.1"