Barefoot Gen: Merchants of death
Paperback
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Request this book.| Genre: | Fiction |
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| Language : | English |
| Published: | March 01, 2009 |
| Edition: | 8th |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780867195996 |
| ISBN10: | 0867195991 |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Dimensions: | 5.75 x 8.25 x 1.0 inches |
| Weight: | 348.7 g |
About the Book
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.