Grass
Book description
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 a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. Beginning in Lee s childhood, Grass…
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I don't know why I picked this book up, but it was the best thing I've read in quite a while. Grass is a graphic memoir of Okseon Lee. We find her as a young girl, born into poverty. Her parents deny her an education and sell her into servitude.
Ultimately, she is forced into sexual slavery during the Japanese army's occupation. Each step of the way, her abusers justify horrific treatment in terms of Okseon's mandate to pay her own debt.
These details make her story all too relatable and familiar. Keum Suk Gendry Kim's masterful, compassionate portrayal is…
A prize-winning work of graphic nonfiction, Grass tells the life story of Lee Ok-Sun, a Korean girl kidnapped into the military comfort station in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. The book is based on the author’s interviews with Lee, and begins with her impoverished childhood. It narrates her torture at the hands of the Japanese army and the hardships she faced after the war ended. The artwork is done with bold ink strokes, contrasting with the measured tone of the story. Together they produce a deeply moving narrative of the ordeals suffered by Korean women and girls under the Japanese military sex slavery…
From Peipei's list on comfort women enslaved by the Japanese military.
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