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The Waiting - Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk, and Hong, Janet (Translated by)
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This "is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, her family married her in a hurry to a a man she didn't know, [after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls]. 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--70 years of waiting. Gwija is ...

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The Waiting 2021, Drawn & Quarterly, New York

ISBN-13: 9781770464575

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