What is The Waiting about?
Status: Finished
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.
Tags: War , Family Life , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , Historical , Rural , Time Skip
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Also known as Grass. Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological
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Included short story: Ro Salpyeoboneun Ilbongun 'Wianbu' (로 살펴보는 일본군 '위안부') by Myeong-Suk Yun.
Nominated to the Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2020.
Tags: Biographical , Historical , Tragedy , Female Protagonist , War , Slavery , Rural , Military
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