Reviews

Barefoot Gen, Volume Six: Writing the Truth by Project Gen, Keiji Nakazawa

misstea's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense

4.5

timshel's review

4.0

Writing the Truth is a solid addition to the Barefoot Gen series. Corruption abounds in this sixth volume where relationships are strengthened and characters are stretched to their max. The story really picks up some of the loose threads made in the last volume and ties them together. In some of the earlier volumes, the story has bounced around considerably, the author clearly hoping to address every angle of post-bomb Hiroshima; in this volume, the story is much more concentrated and the minor characters are becoming more than mere props for the plot.

cindyc3689's review

4.0

Musim panas 1948.
3 tahun setelah bom Hiroshima mulai hidup kembali. Memang orang masih banyak yang sakit dan mati terdampak radiasi, kelaparan dan frustasi, tapi harapan juga mulai tampak. Di keluarga besar Gen, ini tampak dari sebuah mesin jahit yang dibeli untuk Katsuko dan Natsue.

Satu hal yang baru kutahu dari vol 5 dan 6 seri Gen ini, ternyata pihak AS pernah berusaha menutup-nutupi sakitnya orang-orang akibat radiasi bom atom. Hmmm....

#GD