{"id":8509,"date":"2009-12-14T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T00:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=8509"},"modified":"2014-05-19T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T21:48:49","slug":"barefoot-gen-breaking-down-borders-vol-9-by-keiji-nakazawa-translated-by-project-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/barefoot-gen-breaking-down-borders-vol-9-by-keiji-nakazawa-translated-by-project-gen\/","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot Gen: Breaking Down Borders (vol. 9) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/12\/Barefoot-Gen-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29287\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/12\/barefoot-gen-9.jpg\" alt=\"Barefoot Gen 9\" width=\"123\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa&#8217;s graphic testimony continues in the penultimate volume of the heart-wrenching <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2009\/10\/04\/barefoot-gen-vols-1-8-by-keiji-nakazawa-translated-by-project-gen\/\"><em>Barefoot Gen<\/em><\/a> series, finally available in\u00a0an unabridged English translation of\u00a0all 10 volumes from San Francisco&#8217;s renegade publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastgasp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Last Gasp<\/a>. Alone and newly homeless, Nakazawa&#8217;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<p>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&#8217;s promising new job with a sign-painting company.<\/p>\n<p>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, &#8220;thinking how wonderful it would be if he could build beautiful rainbow bridges from country to country, in a world without borders &#8230; a peaceful world free of war, where people cross freely over those rainbow bridges and talk to each other as friends &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More than half a century later, war <em>still <\/em>remains too much a part of our everyday vocabulary. Bringing <em>Barefoot Gen<\/em> back onto bookshelves everywhere is certainly a necessary reminder for peace, most especially for the sake of all our world&#8217;s children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2009 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa&#8217;s graphic testimony continues in the penultimate volume of the heart-wrenching Barefoot Gen series, finally available in\u00a0an unabridged English translation of\u00a0all 10 volumes from San Francisco&#8217;s renegade publisher Last Gasp. Alone and newly homeless, Nakazawa&#8217;s fictionalized stand-in, Gen Nakaoka, moves in with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,73,76,107,30,66,31],"tags":[2784,6608,58,10,11,68,2474,24,2675,28,2676,42,2677,45],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-japanese","category-memoir","category-middle-grade-readers","category-translation","category-young-adult-readers","tag-barefoot-gen","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-hiroshima-nagasaki-atomic-blasts","tag-historical","tag-keiji-nakazawa","tag-politics","tag-project-gen","tag-series","tag-series-barefoot-gen","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barefoot Gen: Breaking Down Borders (vol. 9) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/barefoot-gen-breaking-down-borders-vol-9-by-keiji-nakazawa-translated-by-project-gen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barefoot Gen: Breaking Down Borders (vol. 9) by Keiji Nakazawa, translated by Project Gen - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa&#8217;s graphic testimony continues in the penultimate volume of the heart-wrenching Barefoot Gen series, finally available in\u00a0an unabridged English translation of\u00a0all 10 volumes from San Francisco&#8217;s renegade publisher Last Gasp. 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