Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States. Starting a few months before that event, his ten-volume...

For the first time in the English language, the story of Gen's life after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is continued. In postwar Japan, the people of Hiroshima face a massive food shortage and horrendous health problem...

For the first time in the English language, the story of Gen's life after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is continued. Widely anticipated, volume six of the story follows Gen's struggles in postwar Japan. The people o...

Volume two, The Day After, focuses on the days following the bombing of Hiroshima, as the living victims struggle to survive in the aftermath.

Volume four, resumes nine days after the bomb, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter and water amid chaos and vast human suffering. Though confronted with the most despicable aspects of humankind, Gen acts with ...