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Kimberly Chang has her world turned upside-down when she moves with her mother from their home in Hong Kong to New York. But their new life doesn’t quite live up to their expectations – living in a vermin-ridden apartment in Brooklyn, the pair only have a sometimes working oven to keep warm. They have nothing but debt and neither of them speaks a word of English. While her mother spends her days earning two cents a garment at a sweatshop, intellectually gifted eleven-year-old Kim faces a new and trying challenge: school. Exiled by language, estranged in a new culture and weighed down by staggering poverty, Kim must learn to translate not just her language but who she is as she straddles these two very different worlds. In this powerful story, Jean Kwok spins a moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, of all that’s said without words and all that gets lost in translation.
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Girl in Translation, Jean Kwok, Julie Otsuka
- Language
- Released
- 2010
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Very Good
- Price
- €3.99
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- Title
- Girl in Translation
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jean Kwok, Julie Otsuka
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 293
- ISBN10
- 1905490623
- ISBN13
- 9781905490622
- Series
- Categories
- Tags
- Family, Women, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Stories, Coming Of Age, Asia, China, New York, Asian Fiction
- Description
- Kimberly Chang has her world turned upside-down when she moves with her mother from their home in Hong Kong to New York. But their new life doesn’t quite live up to their expectations – living in a vermin-ridden apartment in Brooklyn, the pair only have a sometimes working oven to keep warm. They have nothing but debt and neither of them speaks a word of English. While her mother spends her days earning two cents a garment at a sweatshop, intellectually gifted eleven-year-old Kim faces a new and trying challenge: school. Exiled by language, estranged in a new culture and weighed down by staggering poverty, Kim must learn to translate not just her language but who she is as she straddles these two very different worlds. In this powerful story, Jean Kwok spins a moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, of all that’s said without words and all that gets lost in translation.