Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima #1 [New Translation]

Keiji Nakazawa's semiautobiographical manga about Hiroshima gets a fresh all-new English translation in this volume, presented here with an introduction by Art Spiegelman. The cover captures the spirit of the work beautifully: a barefoot boy in a school uniform leaps energetically against a blazing sun-drenched sky, bamboo pole in hand, while a younger child bounds joyfully below him — both radiating an irrepressible vitality against a landscape that hints at hardship. This 2004 Last Gasp edition is a meaningful entry point into one of the most humane and important works in the manga canon.