Girl in Translation
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Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life--like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition--Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and moved to Brooklyn when she was a child. Jean earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a master's degree in fiction from Columbia University. She worked as an English teacher and a Dutch-English translator at Leiden University in the Netherlands before dedicating herself entirely to writing. Story Magazine and Prairie Schooner have both published her work.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594487569 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594487561 |
| Title | Girl in Translation |
| Author | Jean Kwok |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Year published | 2010-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 293 |
| Prizes | Winner of Alex Awards 2011, Commended for Tayshas Reading 2012 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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