From: kenmlin@aol.com   
      
   I acquired translated version of Volume 9 and 10 but somehow #10 contained   
   the same pages as #9 except with different cover.   
      
   "Bobbie Sellers"  wrote in message news:mneb4n$muk$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   Hi readers and writers,   
   It has been nearly a year since I last tried to get you to read this   
   manga about the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima,  I just   
   re-read the first volume of this story again.  I think everyone should   
   all 10 volumes though the emotional intensity of the story is less   
   at the end.   
      
   Most of the first volume is devoted to the happy and industrious   
   family, the viciousness of the police forces and local government.  We   
   get a glimpse of various other negative aspects of Wartime Japan.   
   The author of the story was only 6 years old when the   
   bomb was dropped and saved from death by being behind a concrete wall.   
   He was about a kilometer from the epicenter of the blast.   
   The boy in the story has two older brothers one joins the   
   military to escape the onus of traitor the  father has been branded   
   with.  He had been working in a munitions plant but was assaulted   
   and blamed for an explosion.  The other was sent to the countryside   
   where he was beaten for being a townie by the hicks.  The kids   
   in the countryside were being starved by the people in charge.   
   Gen's older sister is accused of theft and made to strip   
   in front of the teacher.   
      
   The author's father was a member of a pacifistic acting company   
   and all the members were tossed in jail.  The father in the story is   
   a pacifist and makes geta (clogs) to earn a living for the family.   
   The last raises a question, "Why do the shoemaker's   
   children go barefoot"?   
      
   Read Barefoot Gen!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)