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The Waiting (Paperback)
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The Waiting (Paperback)
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Loot Price R563
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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family
secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean
War. It s not an uncommon story the peninsula was split across the
38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence
in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother s
story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other
Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply
resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of
Gwija, told by her novelist daughter, Jina. When Gwija was
seventeen years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing
unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she
didn't know. Japan fell, Korea gained its independence, and the
couple started a family. But peace didn t come. The young family of
four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her
daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then
seventy years passed. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an
elderly woman and Jina can t stop thinking about the promise she
made to help find her brother. Expertly translated from the Korean
by the award-winning translator Janet Hong, The Waiting is the
devastating followup to Gendry-Kim s Grass, which appeared on
best-of-the-year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian,
Library Journal, and more.
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