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Leader LDR nam5a 00
Control # 1 in502834246
Date 5 20211214130511.0
Fixed Data 8 211109s2021 |||| ||| ||||||||||||
ISBN 20    $a9781770464575$c$24.95
ISBN 20    $a1770464573$c$24.95
Obsolete 39    $a360945$cTLC
Dewey Class 82 00 $a741.595195
ME:Pers Name 100 $aGendry-Kim, Keum Suk.
Title 245 14 $aThe waiting /$cKeum Suk Gendry-Kim ; translated by Janet Hong.
Imprint 260    $aMontreal :$bDrawn & Quarterly,$c2021.
Phys Descrpt 300    $a242 pages :$billustrations ;$c21 cm.
Abstract 520    $aKeum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down 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 17 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--now four--fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then 70 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."
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aKorean War, 1950-1953$xRefugees$vComic books, strips, etc.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aKorea$xHistory$vComic books, strips, etc.
Tag 949 949    $aSMAGN$cG$dGENDRY$g33390004771552$p24