The Naked Tree
$49.91
- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
22 August 2023
Summary
A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age classic, reimagined.
Critically acclaimed and award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim returns with a stunning addition to her body of graphic fiction rooted in Korean history. Adapted from Park Wan-suh’s beloved novel, The Naked Tree paints a stark portrait of a single nation’s fabric slowly torn to shreds by political upheaval and armed conflict. Fleshing out the characters in fresh, imaginative ways, and incorporatin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781770466678 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1770466673 |
| Author: | Janet Hong, Keum suk Gendry-Kim |
| Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Imprint: | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 22 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
Keum takes the reader inside some of the human heart s most inaccessible chambers, places that are all but closed to most visitors. The Guardian
Janet Hong
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was born in Goheung in Jeolla Province. She has cartooned the graphic novels Grass, The Waiting, La saison des pluies, Jiseul, Jun, The Naked Tree, and Alexandra Kim, a Woman of Siberia; the autobiographical comic The Song of My Father; the three-volume children’s comic Coquinette; the picture books The Baby Hanyeo Okrang Goes to Dokdo and A Day with My Grandpa; and the children’s book My Mother Kang Geumsun.
Grass appeared on Best of the Year lists from the New York Times and the Guardian, and received the Cartoonist Studio Prize for the Best Print Comic of the Year, the Big Other Book Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2019, the Harvey Award for Best International Book, and the Krause Essay Prize in 2020.
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