{"product_id":"grass","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":39333217828964,"sku":"9781770463622","price":33.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0048\/8207\/1652\/files\/9781770463622_1-grass.jpg?v=1759557241","url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/grass","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}