![]() 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. ![]() Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee?s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in Goheung in Jeolla Province. 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. Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim from Drawn+Quarterly gives the biography of Okseon Lee, a Korean woman who was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Empire during World War II. ![]()
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