“I was alive, but I wasn’t living”, a phrase that conveys a deep emotional numbness and depression..powerful enough to make me feel the suffering and trauma.

Based on the author’s interviews with Lee Oksun, Grass potrays how she and other Korean girls were forced into sexual slavery—jugun ianfu—by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.

Tidak seketat di Indonesia, selama tahun 1940, orang-orang Korea dipaksa untuk pakai nama Jepang, dan ngga boleh bicara dengan bahasa ibu supaya ngga dihukum atau dikirim ke kamp perbudakan—typical colonizer