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RepositoryUniversity Archives and Special Collections Centre
Reference NumberLCO/1/6/17/1
TitleBarefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
DescriptionThere is a National Lottery ticket inserted in the final page of the novel dated from May 1997. The book was published under Penguin Books' Originals series and has 284 pages. The story is told as a manga comic, using Western reading patterns, and tells the author's experience of the Hiroshima bombing through the narrative of a boy called Gen. The book has been translated into English by Project Gen. The back of the book contains reviews by Art Spiegelman and Robert Crumb. The book was published by Penguin in 1989 but Nakazawa's copyright dates to 1987.
Date1989
CreatorKeiji Nakazawa
Extent1 volume
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