The Waiting

The Waiting

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MANGA • 2020
status

Completed

start-date

21/9/2020

end-date

21/9/2020

country-origin

KR

popularity

387

studios
synonyms

A Espera

L'attente

La espera

Ventetiden

الانتظار

Čekanje

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—now four—fled south. On the road, while breastfeeding and changing her daughter, Gwija was separated from her husband and son.

Then 70 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.

(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)