Books like Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim


Grama é uma poderosa graphic novel antiguerra que narra a história real da sul-coreana Ok-sun Lee, vendida pela própria família na infância e forçada à escravidão sexual pelo Exército Imperial Japonês. Ela é uma das várias mulheres que foram capturadas para servir aos soldados nas chamadas “casas de conforto”, espalhadas pela China e pelos territórios ocupados pelo Japão durante a Segunda Guerra Sino-Japonesa e a Segunda Guerra Mundial, em um dos episódios mais vergonhosos do passado da humanidade. Ok-sun Lee, hoje com mais de 90 anos, se tornou uma importante ativista pela indenização das “mulheres de conforto”, e é por meio de seus relatos à autora Keum Suk Gendry-Kim que acompanhamos sua triste história de vida. A obra foi lançada na Coreia do Sul há apenas três anos, em 2017, mas já ganhou publicações em outros seis idiomas e tem colecionado prêmios e elogios da crítica no mundo todo. Venceu o Prêmio Especial Bulles d’Humanité, do tradicional diário francês L’Humanité; entrou para as listas de melhores histórias em quadrinhos de 2019 dos jornais The New York Times e The Guardian; venceu os prêmios The Cartoonist Studio Prize, Big Other Book Award e VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award; e foi indicada em três categorias do célebre Prêmio Eisner em 2020, como Melhor escritor/artista, Melhor trabalho baseado em fatos e Melhor edição americana de material asiático. O grande sucesso de Grama está em trazer à tona a questão desse gravíssimo crime de guerra em uma narrativa leve e chocante ao mesmo tempo, sempre com ênfase na força e determinação de sua protagonista para superar adversidades e manter-se viva. A edição da editora Pipoca & Nanquim, traduzida diretamente do coreano, tem 492 páginas em papel offset 90g, capa dura com sobrecapa macia ao toque e com verniz localizado, lombada redonda e fitilho marcador de tecido.
First publish date: 2019
Subjects: History, World War, 1939-1945, Biography, Atrocities, Comic books, strips
Authors: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
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