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Summary:

"Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply resonant graphic novel. The Waiting is the fictional story of Gwija, told by her novelist daughter Jina. When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. 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. Seventy years of waiting. Gwija is now an elderly woman and Jina can't stop thinking about the promise she made to help find her brother."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Leaving the city
• Two friends
• My home in the north
• A time of chaos
• We were happy still
• The 1950 Korean war
• Going south
• Thank you for staying alive
• To the sea
• My mom's video message
• A lifetime of waiting.

Author/Creator:

Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk , author, artist

Contributors:

Hong, Janet , translator

Languages:

English
Korean

Language Notes:

In English; translated from the Korean.

Main Work:

Kidarim [by Gendry-Kim, K.S.] (English)

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Waiting [by Gendry-Kim, K.S.] (First edition; [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, [2021] — ISBN 9781770464575; OCLC Number 1226404457)

Subjects:

Families — Korea (South) — Comic books, strips, etc.

Families — Korea (North) — Comic books, strips, etc.

Korean War, 1950-1953 — Refugees — Comic books, strips, etc.

Korean War, 1950-1953 — Comic books, strips, etc.

Korea — History — Japanese occupation, 1910-1945 — Comic books, strips, etc.

Korea — History — 1945- — Comic books, strips, etc.

Korean War (1950-1953)

Japanese Occupation of Korea (Korea : 1910-1945)

Since 1910

Refugees

Comic books, strips, etc.

Families

Korea (South)

Japan

Korea

Korea (North)

Genres:

Graphic novels

Comics (Graphic works)

War comics

History

General Notes:

Translation of: Kidarim.
Description based on: Print version record.

Creator Demographics:

Koreans; Canadians
Women
Authors; Artists; Translators

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : chiefly illustrations

Call Numbers:

PN6790.K63 G46513 2021eb

ISBNs:

1770465715
9781770465718 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1277047108