{"product_id":"hierba-grass","title":"Hierba \/ Grass","description":"\u003cb\u003eUna aclamada novela gráfica de no ficción sobre las \"mujeres de consuelo\" asiáticas en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hierba es la historia real de una superviviente: Lee Ok-Sun, una joven coreana que durante la Guerra del Pacífico fue explotada como «mujer de consuelo», el eufemismo utilizado por el ejército imperial japonés para referirse a sus esclavas sexuales. A día de hoy, aquel sigue siendo uno de los capítulos más oscuros del siglo XX. Partiendo de las entrevistas que mantuvo con Lee Ok-Sun en una residencia de ancianos, la autora ha narrado el devenir de su infancia en un ambiente extremadamente humilde, vendida sucesivamente a varias familias adoptivas, hasta que llegó la ocupación japonesa y en 1942 fue trasladada a la fuerza a una base aérea en China. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e CÓMIC DEL AÑO para The New York Times, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Library Journal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGANADOR DE LOS PREMIOS: Harvey Award, Krause Essay Prize, Cartoonist Studio Prize, Big Other Book Award, YALSA Book Award, Prix Bulles dHumanité. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e FINALISTA DE LOS PREMIOS: Eisner Award, Believer Book Award, LA Times Book Prize, Ringo Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e 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!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Grass 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beginning 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 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":"Reservoir Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62112631619954,"sku":"BS-R4W-052071","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2972\/2226\/files\/9788418052071-HD.jpg?v=1784928262","url":"https:\/\/www.novelpanel.com\/products\/hierba-grass","provider":"Novel Panel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}