Grass / Keum Suk Gendry-Kim ; translated by Janet Hong.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Korean Publisher: [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: English edition; First editionDescription: 471 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781770463622
- 1770463623
- P'ul. English
- Lee, Ok-sun
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"First published in 2017 by Bori Publishing Co., Korea." -- Title page verso.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.