Barefoot Gen Volume 7: Bones Into Dust

Brief Description:
"First published under the title Hadashi no Gen in Japan 1990" --T.p. verso.

Marc Notes:
First published under the title Hadashi no Gen in Japan 1990 --T.p. verso.; Part 7 of a ten-part series--P. [4] of cover.; Gen finds a printer willing to print the eyewitness account Papa has written. When it has been printed and distributed, the U.S. Army censors become angry and teach them a difficult lesson. When Koji, Gen's brother finally returns home, he finds their mother on her deathbed.; Translated from the Japanese.

Publisher Marketing:
Barefoot Gen Volume Seven ― "Bones into Dust" ― Gen has grown old enough to think about the legacy of the victims of the atomic bombing. Picking up from Volume Six, the story opens with Gen searching for a printer willing to publish an eyewitness account of the bombing written by "Papa," the journalist who serves as a father figure to Gen's war orphan friends. By hook and crook Gen and Ryuta manage to get the book printed and distributed, only to arouse the wrath of U.S. Army censors, who teach them a hard lesson about the politics of memory. Meanwhile, Gen's brother Koji returns home at last, only to find that their mother is on her deathbed.

Contributor Bio:Nakazawa, Keiji
Nakazawa was born in Hiroshima, and was six years old when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945. All of his family members who had not been evacuated died in the bombing, except for his mother, and an infant sister who died several weeks after the bombing. Compelled to tell his story in the memory of his family, Keiji Nakazawa is best known for his epic tragic history Barefoot Gen.