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Author(s)
Kim Keumsuk김금숙
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Translator(s)
Janet HongJanet Hong
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Publisher
Drawn QuarterlyDrawn Quarterly
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Country
CANADA
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Language
English(English)
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Year Published
2019
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Category
Graphic Novel 그래픽 노블
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Target User
Adult 성인
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Period
Contemporary 현대
Description 작품 소개
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Appeared on best of the year lists from <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New York Times</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Guardian</i>, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year!</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> 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.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beginning in Lee’s childhood, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> 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. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> 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.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i>, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.</p><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;">Translated by Janet Hong.</span>
Reference
<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 나눔바른고딕; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 나눔바른고딕; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Drawn Quarterly </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 나눔바른고딕; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(248, 248, 248);">Publisher. "Grass", </span><font color="#000000" face="나눔바른고딕"><span style="font-size: 16px;">https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/grass/. accessed 7 October </span></font><span style="font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 나눔바른고딕; background-color: transparent;">2024.</span><br/>
Author Bio 작가 소개
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Appeared on best of the year lists from <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New York Times</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Guardian</i>, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year!</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> 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.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beginning in Lee’s childhood, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> 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. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> 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.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i>, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grass</i> is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.</p><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(30, 30, 30); font-family: "PT Serif"; font-size: 16px;">Translated by Janet Hong.</span>
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