{"product_id":"grass-1","title":"Grass","description":"Appeared on best of the year lists from The New York Times, The Guardian, and more! Winner of The Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Print Comic of the Year!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrass is a powerful antiwar graphic novel, telling 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 twentieth-century Asian history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning in Lee?s childhood, Grass shows the lead-up to the war from a child?s vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Koreans. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee?s strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. 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 somber interiors of Lee?s memories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cartoonist Gendry-Kim?s interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful nonfiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee?s wartime suffering changed her. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace.","brand":"Drawn and Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57159559971151,"sku":"9781770463622","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9781770463622_1-grass.jpg?v=1772566553","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/grass-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}