{"id":84380,"date":"2009-12-14T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2009-12-14T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:25:03","slug":"barefoot-gen-breaking-down-borders-vol-9-by-keiji-nakazawa-translated-by-project-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/84380","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot Gen: Breaking Down Borders (vol. 9) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa’s graphic testimony continues in the penultimate volume of the heart-wrenching Barefoot Gen<\/em><\/a> series, finally available in an unabridged English translation of all 10 volumes from San Francisco’s renegade publisher Last Gasp<\/a>. Alone and newly homeless, Nakazawa’s fictionalized stand-in, Gen Nakaoka, moves in with his motley group of survivor friends, together creating a family bound together by both tragedy and promise.<\/p>\n

Natsue prepares for her own death by creating the perfect jar for her ashes which Gen purposefully breaks in hopes of keeping her alive a little longer. But the sheer will of her friends cannot help the ailing Natsue and she quickly succumbs. In the midst of chasing a would-be robber during her memorial, Gen meets an older, caring artist who proves to be the perfect mentor in Gen’s promising new job with a sign-painting company.<\/p>\n

In spite of all the horrors he has faced in his young life, Gen is filled with hope as he looks on at a beautiful rainbow, “thinking how wonderful it would be if he could build beautiful rainbow bridges from country to country, in a world without borders … a peaceful world free of war, where people cross freely over those rainbow bridges and talk to each other as friends …”<\/p>\n

More than half a century later, war still <\/em>remains too much a part of our everyday vocabulary. Bringing Barefoot Gen<\/em> back onto bookshelves everywhere is certainly a necessary reminder for peace, most especially for the sake of all our world’s children.<\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2009 (United States)<\/p>\n

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Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa’s graphic testimony continues in the penultimate volume of the heart-wrenching Barefoot Gen series, finally available in an unabridged English translation of all 10 volumes from San Francisco’s renegade publisher Last Gasp. Alone and newly homeless, Nakazawa’s fictionalized stand-in, Gen Nakaoka, moves in with his motley group of survivor friends, together creating a family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}