Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

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The WaitingPaperback, 2 November 2021

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Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Date Published
2 Nov 2021
ISBN-10
1770464573
ISBN-13
9781770464575

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**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; 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 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.

Product Details

Author:
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 November 2021
Dimensions:
21.08 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
1770464573
ISBN-13:
9781770464575
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
248
Weight:
589.67 gm

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