Barefoot Gen - Merchants of Death (GN 8 of 10)

Release date: 2009-03-31
Suggested retail price: $14.95
Age rating: 13+

ISBN-10: 0867195991 0867195991
ISBN-13: 9780867195996 9780867195996

Description:
In 1950, 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.

Story and art by Keiji Nakazawa.

Notes:
This release was later reprinted with a brand new cover but with no changes to the ISBN.

(added on 2008-11-05, modified on 2008-11-05)

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