Title: The Color of Water
Author: Kim Dong Hwa
Genre: Young Adult
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: First Second (June 9, 2009)
Description: When Ehwa goes to the town festival, she meets a handsome young wrestler named Duksam who’s eager to catch her eye. After he wins the festival wrestling championship, he and Ehwa begin to meet, sneaking spare moments to be together. But a shadow falls on their romance when Master Cho sends Duksam away and asks for Ehwa’s hand in marriage himself It is then that Ehwa discovers the pain of heartbreak – and that love is always complicated.
My Review: In this volume of the series stuff gets to happen'. Ehwa is a young woman and falling in love, ooooh, for the first time. And it is not going to be easy, right. The series is taking a romantic turn, it is more than just s3x now. What I like about this series is that despite a happy occurrence, one of good luck, you can still feel the constrictions, the limitations of women. That awareness leads you to see that Korean woman never could be fully content, this is driven home by the following volume, in which a "happy ending" is achieved, but the Ehwa's mother still mourns, still possesses a feeling that she is still waiting.
You could say this graphic novel is about how hard it is to be a woman Especially in traditional Korean culture. Man is king. Women rarely have a say. They just wait and hope.
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