**El esperado nuevo libro de la autora de Hierba: la emocionante
historia de las familias separadas tras la división de Corea y la guerra
de 1950
**
Gwija tiene 92 años y vive en Corea del Sur. Tras décadas de espera,
desea reencontrarse con su hijo mayor. Lo perdió de vista en una columna
de refugiados, huyendo del norte, mientras amamantaba al bebé que
llevaba en brazos. En un encuentro auspiciado por la Cruz Roja, su amiga
Jeong-Sun acaba de reunirse con su hermana pequeña después de sesenta y
ocho años separadas. Gwija solo desea poder seguir sus pasos en una
nueva edición.
En 1950, la guerra de Corea separó a familias enteras, que quedaron a
uno y otro lado de una frontera infranqueable. A partir de las
entrevistas que Keum Suk Gendry-Kim realizó a varios testimonios (entre
ellos, su propia madre), La espera reconstruye el trauma de toda una
generación de coreanos, ya casi olvidados, que siguen aguardando un
reencuentro.
MEJOR CÓMIC DEL AÑO. -The Washington Post / Forbes / Publishers Weekly
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The long-awaited new book by the author of Grass the emotional
story of families separated after the division of Korea and the 1950
war.
The story begins with a mother's confession...sisters permanently
separated by a border during the Korean War
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; the 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 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.
