![]() ![]() ![]() The story chronicles events that led up to agents for Japanese Imperial Army kidnapping and enslaving Ok-sun and vulnerable girls like her become comfort women against their wills. Grass 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. At over 450 pages, Grass is a groundbreaking graphic novel that depicts how adults throughout Ok-sun’s youth betrayed and exploited her for their profit. Grass is a graphic novel by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee?s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. ![]() DESCRIPTION BOOK : This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women?s livesGrass 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.Beginning in Lee?s childhood, Grass 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. Author Keum Suk Gendry-Kim shows Lee as an elderly woman leaving China, where she has endured one of the most traumatic chapters of her life, spending decades in a loveless, abusive marriage. ![]()
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