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Author Nakazawa, Keiji

Title Hiroshima : the autobiography of Barefoot Gen / Nakazawa Keiji ; edited and translated by Richard H. Minear
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 188 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Asian voices
Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
Contents Author's Introduction; The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb, "Gen," and I; Editor's Introduction; Richard H. Minear; 1; Prelude to Tragedy; Barefoot Gen: Excerpt 1; 2; A Sudden Flash of Light; Barefoot Gen: Excerpt 2; 3; Terror; Barefoot Gen: Excerpt 3; 4; To Live; Barefoot Gen: Excerpt 4; 5; I Set Out; Barefoot Gen: Excerpt 5; 6; Gen and I, Together; Afterword; Appendix; Interview with Nakazawa Keiji
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nakazawa, Keiji.
Nakazawa, Keiji. Hadashi no Gen.
Nakazawa, Keiji -- Childhood and youth
Nakazawa, Keiji -- Family
SUBJECT Nakazawa, Keiji fast
Hadashi no Gen (Nakazawa, Keiji) fast
Subject Cartoonists -- Japan -- Biography
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Japan -- History
Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Biography
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Erotica.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Fantasy.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Romance.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Gay & Lesbian.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Artists, Architects, Photographers.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Media Tie-In.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Science Fiction.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Horror.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Manga -- Historical Fiction.
Childhood and youth of a person
Atomic bomb victims
Cartoonists
Comic books, strips, etc.
Families
SUBJECT Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Personal narratives
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- Biography
Japan -- Biography
Subject Japan
Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
Author Minear, Richard H
ISBN 1442207493
9781442207493
Other Titles Hadashi no Gen jiden. English