Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in Goheung in Jeolla Province, a county famous for its beautiful mountains and shores. Grass won the Harvey Award for Best International Book, a US award known as the Oscars of comics.
Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. Cartoonist Gendry-Kim’s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful non-fiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee’s wartime suffering changed her. 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 sombre interiors of Lee’s memories. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee’s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Beginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the lead up to World War II from a child’s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Korean folk. Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand 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.
Grassīy Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong Following the talk, author Kim will respond to questions from the audience. Author Keum Suk Gendry-Kim and translator Janet Hong will give a live virtual talk about her novel ‘Grass’. July’s literature event organised by the KCCUK features a well-received graphic novel.
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