Hiroshima : the autobiography of Barefoot Gen

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Hiroshima : the autobiography of Barefoot Gen

Title remainder

the autobiography of Barefoot Gen

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Nakazawa Keiji ; edited and translated by Richard H. Minear

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Summary

This compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was six years old when on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb. His gritty and stunning account of the horrific aftermath is powerfully told through the eyes of a child who lost most of his family and neighbors. The narrative continues through the brutally difficult years immediately after the war, his art apprenticeship in Tokyo, his pioneering 'atomic-bomb' manga, and the creation of Barefoot Gen, the classic graphic novel based on his own experien

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

741.5/952

Illustrations

illustrations
maps

Index

index present

LC call number

NC1709.N26

LC item number

A2 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Series statement

Asian voices

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