Barefoot Gen, Volume Three: Life After the Bomb
A Japan, Historical, Cultural book. Again, a good volume. The touching story continues, and this is not...
Barefoot Gen is a harrowing story of the bombing of Hiroshima told from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. Physical and emotional hardship on an extraordinary scale marks their lives as they try to cope with the transformation of their tranquil world into a Boschian nightmare. Comprising nearly 2,000 pages, this series is considered the first of the "literary" graphic novel genre that also includes Maus by Art Spiegelman. First serialized in 1972-73, this third volume in the series features a new translation.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 257 pages
- ISBN: 9780867195941 / 867195940
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Ironically, I happened to pick this up yesterday, the day the pilot of the Enola Gay died."Barefoot Gen" is a ten-part series based on the author's and author's friends experiences surviving the Hiroshima A-bomb attack. I can't say it any better than the back of the book: "the powerful, tragic, autobiographical story of the bombing... Again, a good volume. The touching story continues, and this is not necessarily any less good than the previous volumes. However, I am becoming a bit tired of all the "extremeness" of how people's behaviour are being portrayed. People scream, shout, vomit in gigantic sprays, punches and slaps each other brutally. Perhaps it is something... Okay, this volume made me sniffle. Maybe not in a BAD way, tho... in this volume we get to meet one of the people who influenced our 'Barefoot Gen' to grow up and become an artist... we see him coping with the strange realities of life AFTER an A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, wiping half his family from the face of the earth... It's...
