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>FINALISTA Harvey Award / LA Times Book PrizeEl esperado nuevo libro de la autora de Hierba: la emocionante historia de las familias separadas tras la división de Corea y la guerra de 1950

> En 1950, la guerra de Corea separó a familias enteras, que quedaron a uno y otro lado de una frontera infranqueable. A partir de las entrevistas que Keum Suk Gendry-Kim realizó a varios testimonios (entre ellos, su propia madre), La espera reconstruye el trauma de toda una generación de coreanos, ya casi olvidados, que siguen aguardando un reencuentro. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONBEST COMIC OF THE YEAR The Washington Post / Forbes / Publishers WeeklyAWARDS Freeman Awards / YALSA Book Award / Cartoonist Studio Prize / Prix BDGest'FINALIST Harvey Award / LA Times Book Prize The long-awaited new book by the author of Grass the emotional story of families separated after the division of Korea and the 1950 war.The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean War.

> 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 of four fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son. Then seventy 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.