Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima - Volume 1

"highly recommended for older readers and for all libraries."
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"invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion."
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is the powerful, tragic, autobiographical story of the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath, seen through the eyes of the artist as a young boy growing up in Japan.

The honest portrayal of emotions and experiences speaks to children and adults everywhere. serves as a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people, and as a unique documentation of an especially horrible source of suffering, the atomic bomb.

This is part one of a ten-part series.

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— Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of MAUS (from the Introduction to Volume 1)

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— Robert Crumb, cartoonist