Barefoot Gen, Volume Three by Keiji Nakazawa

A harrowing continuation that follows a young boy and other survivors in the months after the atomic bombing, portraying desperate scarcity, illness and social breakdown alongside acts of unexpected kindness; the volume focuses on daily struggles to find food and shelter, the rise of black-market hardships and prejudice against the exposed, and the slow, painful process of burying the dead, nursing the sick, and trying to rebuild lives—forcing the protagonist and those around him to confront moral choices, lingering trauma, and faint threads of hope amid devastation.

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