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The Waiting

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Author
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Co-Author
-
Translator
Janet Hong
Publisher
Drawn Quarterly
Published Year
2021
Country
CANADA (Montreal)
Classification

KDC구분 > Social science > Sociology and social problems

Original Title
기다림
Romanization of Original
Gidarim
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

ISBN
9781770465718
Page
-
Series
OVERDRIVE READ

About the Author

About the Original Work
  • 기다림
  • Author : Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
  • Published Year : 2020
  • English Title : The Waiting
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  • English(English)

Keum 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. Expertly translated from Korean by award-winning Janet Hong, The Waiting is the devastating followup to Gendry-Kim's Grass, which won the Krause Essay Prize, the Slate Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Harvey Award, and appeared on best of the year lists from the New York Times, The Guardian, Library Journal, and more.

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Translated Books7 See More

  • Spanish(Español) Book
    La espera
    KEUM SUK GENDRY-KIM / 김금숙 / 2023 / -
  • Italian(Italiano) Book
    L’ATTESA
    Keum Suk Gendry-Kim / 김금숙 / 2023 / -
  • Bosnian(Bosanski) Book
    Čekanje
    Keum Suk Gendry-Kim / 김금숙 / 2022 / -
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