The release date for the English version of 'Girl in Translation' by
Jean Kwok is Apr 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Presenting an amazing debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two countries and two futures—a novel, fascinating Chinese-American voice.
Kimberly Chang immediately starts a covert double life when she and her mother leave Hong Kong for the impoverished Brooklyn neighborhood. During the day, she is an amazing schoolgirl, and in the evenings, she works in sweatshops in Chinatown. covering up the harder realities of her existence, such as the extreme poverty she endures, the knowledge that her family's future is entirely dependent on her, or her covert love for a factory lad who has any of her desire or skill. Kimberly continuously gains the ability to translate herself between the two realms she lives in, as well as her language.
Author Jean Kwok, who left Hong Kong as a young girl herself, exposes a world we seldom hear about by writing about Kimberly's story and the lives of innumerable immigrants who are torn between the need to succeed in America, their family's expectations, and their own personal desires.
Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant; it's a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation. Written in an irresistible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood.