Girl in Translation

Name: Girl in Translation
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ISBN: 9781594485152

ISBN-10: 1594485151

ISBN-13: 9781594485152

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Authors: Jean Kwok

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When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she 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 also herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.14" wide x 7.94" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jean Kwok has a BA in English and American Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She taught at the University of Leiden and is an alumnus of the Amsterdam Writing Workshops. Jean's debut novel is entitled Girl in Translation. This 2010 novel has already been sold in eight countries.