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La espera / The Waiting
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
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R687
R583
Discovery Miles 5 830
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Grass (Paperback)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
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R711
R586
Discovery Miles 5 860
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Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand
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 20th century Asian history.
Beginning in Lee s childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War
II from a child s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person
experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it
entailed for ordinary Korean folk. 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.
Cartoonist Gendry-Kim s interviews with Lee become an integral part
of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful
non-fiction 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.
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The Naked Tree (Paperback)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; Translated by Janet Hong
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R796
R645
Discovery Miles 6 450
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A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age story. The
critically acclaimed and award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk
Gendry-Kim returns with a stunning addition to her body of graphic
fiction rooted in Korean history. Adapted from Park Wan-seo s
beloved novel, The Naked Tree paints a stark portrait of a single
nation s fabric slowly torn to shreds by political upheaval and
armed conflict. The year is 1951. Twenty-year-old wallflower Lee
Kyung ekes out a living at the US Post Exchange, where goods and
services of varying stripe are available for purchase. She peddles
hand-painted portraits on silk handkerchiefs to soldiers passing
through. When a handsome young northern escapee and erstwhile fine
artist is hired despite waning demand, an unlikely friendship
blossoms into a young woman s first brush with desire against the
backdrop of the Korean War at its most devastating. Gendry-Kim
brings a masterpiece of world literature to life with bold,
expressive lines that capture a denuded landscape brutally forced
into transition and the people who must find their way back to each
other within it. Available for the first time in English, this
edition of The Naked Tree is exquisitely translated by
award-winning expert Janet Hong.
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The Waiting (Paperback)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim; Translated by Janet Hong
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R635
R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
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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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