Nakazawa, a Hiroshima survivor, effectively portrays the strain of living in this environment and shows how efforts to stay upbeat in dire circumstances sometimes manifest as manic, irrational humor. The adults are exhausted and near despair the children take air raids and starvation more or less in stride. Gen and his family have long been struggling without much food, money or medicine, but despite hardships, they try to maintain a semblance of normal life. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities) ring chillingly true today. It recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. The reissue of this classic manga's first volume has impeccable timing.
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