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Pies Descalzos 2: Una Historia de Hiroshima / Barefoot Gen Volume 2: A Story of Hiroshima
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Han pasado casi dos aos desde que estall la bomba atmica y Japn vive bajo la ocupacin militar estadounidense. Mientras los soldados patrullan, en las calles de Hiroshima an se pueden or los gemidos de dolor y el llanto de los supervivientes. La ciudad est en ruinas y a muchos todava les espera un largo camino de sufrimientos inimaginables. Gen, por su parte, ve que muchos de sus amigos han quedado hurfanos y que corren el peligro de caer en manos de la yakuza. Ya ha perdido a uno de ellos, a Bellota, y no permitir que a Ryuta y a los dems les pase lo mismo... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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. In eminently readable and beautifully translated prose, 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 Nakazawa's experiences before, during, and after the bomb. This first English-language translation of Nakazawa's autobiography includes twenty pages of excerpts from Barefoot Gen to give readers who don't know the manga a taste of its power and scope. A recent interview with the author brings his life up to the present. His trenchant hostility to Japanese imperialism, the emperor and the emperor system, and U.S. policy adds important nuance to the debate over Hiroshima. Despite the grimness of his early life, Nakazawa never succumbs to pessimism or defeatism. His trademark optimism and activism shine through in this inspirational work.
Han pasado casi dos aos desde que estall la bomba atmica y Japn vive bajo la ocupacin militar estadounidense. Mientras los soldados patrullan, en las calles de Hiroshima an se pueden or los gemidos de dolor y el llanto de los supervivientes. La ciudad est en ruinas y a muchos todava les espera un largo camino de sufrimientos inimaginables. Gen, por su parte, ve que muchos de sus amigos han quedado hurfanos y que corren el peligro de caer en manos de la yakuza. Ya ha perdido a uno de ellos, a Bellota, y no permitir que a Ryuta y a los dems les pase lo mismo... ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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. In eminently readable and beautifully translated prose, 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 Nakazawa's experiences before, during, and after the bomb. This first English-language translation of Nakazawa's autobiography includes twenty pages of excerpts from Barefoot Gen to give readers who don't know the manga a taste of its power and scope. A recent interview with the author brings his life up to the present. His trenchant hostility to Japanese imperialism, the emperor and the emperor system, and U.S. policy adds important nuance to the debate over Hiroshima. Despite the grimness of his early life, Nakazawa never succumbs to pessimism or defeatism. His trademark optimism and activism shine through in this inspirational work.
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$24.95