| "Deeply compelling." Ann Packer |
Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about 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.
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.
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Hardback Editions
July 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Girl In Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 1-4448-0724-2 / 978-1-4448-0724-0 Publisher: Charnwood Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2011 : Hardback
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 1-61383-166-8 / 9781613831663 (USA edition) Publisher: Perfection Learning Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2010 : Hardback
| Title: (GIRL IN TRANSLATION , LARGE PRINT) BY Kwok, Jean (Author) Hardcover Published on (10 , 2010) Author(s): Jean Kwok Publisher: Center Point Large Print Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Girl in Translation (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point)) Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 1-60285-887-X / 9781602858879 (USA edition) Publisher: Center Point Large Print Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2010 : Hardback
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 1-59448-756-1 / 9781594487569 (USA edition) Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2010 : Hardback
| Title: LARGE PRINT. Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 1-61664-281-5 / 9781616642815 (USA edition) Publisher: Riverhead Books / Doubleday Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 0-14-104274-5 / 978-0-14-104274-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2011 : Paperback
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 1-59448-515-1 / 9781594485152 (USA edition) Publisher: Riverhead Trade Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 1-59448-765-0 / 9781594487651 (USA edition) Publisher: Riverhead Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): ISBN: 1-905490-62-3 / 9781905490622 (UK edition) Publisher: Fig Tree Hardback Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
April 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok ISBN: 0-14-242799-3 / 978-0-14-242799-6 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
2011 : Unknown
| Title: Girl in Translation [Paperback] Author(s): Jean Kwok Publisher: Riverhead Trade Availability: Amazon More details... |
July 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
April 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: Girl in Translation Author(s): Jean Kwok Publisher: Riverhead Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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