Name: Grass
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Author: Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk ; Hong, Janet
ISBN: 9781770463622

Type

Physical Book

Author

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Translated by

Janet Hong

Publisher

Drawn & Quarterly

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1 x 15.0 x 3.6 cm

Weight

0.84 kg.

ISBN13

9781770463622

Synopsis "Grass "

Appeared on best of the year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year! Grass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second World War--a disputed chapter in twentieth-century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee's strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee's memories. The cartoonist Gendry-Kim's interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee's wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

(Author)

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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in Goheung, in the Jeolla province (South Korea). She graduated in Fine Arts from Sejong University in Seoul, and completed her artistic training at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg. She lived seventeen years in France and began publishing by drawing her first graphic novels for the French market, among which we highlight Le chant de mon père (2012) and Jiseul (2015), as well as L'arbre nu (2020); she has also illustrated numerous children's books and translated more than a hundred books. Grass (2017) is her first book in Korean and the one that has given her the most international projection, translated into fourteen languages and winner of the Antifaz Award for Best International Comic Published in Spain, among other prestigious awards. Following this were Jun (2019) and The Waiting (2021)

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