{"product_id":"jean-kwok-girl-in-translation-2011-paperback","title":"Jean Kwok: Girl in Translation [2011] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGirl in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment. The only heating is an unreliable oven. They are deep in debt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd neither one speaks one word of English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet there is hope. Eleven-year-old Kim goes to school. And though cut off by an alien language and culture and forced by poverty to work nights in a sweatshop - she finds the classroom challenges liberating. In books and learning she'll be saved. But can Kim successfully turn to lost girl from Hong Kong into a happy American woman? And should she?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Kwok's powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A sensitively handled rites-of-passage account...has the unmistakable ring of authenticity' \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'A truly amazing story that'll leave you full of admiration and affection for the characters' \u003ci\u003eEasy Living\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'A classic and moving immigration story' \u003ci\u003eRed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eJean Kwok emigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn as a child; her first novel \u003ci\u003eGirl in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e is based loosely on her own experience as a Chinese immigrant in America. With Girl in Translation Jean Kwok has won the American Library Association Alex Award, an Orange New Writers title and international critical acclaim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kwok, Jean","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51914772349267,"sku":"9780141042749","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":51914772382035,"sku":"XG80141042749","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/kwok-jean-jean-kwok-girl-in-translation-2011-paperback-1193335099.jpg?v=1758137480","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/jean-kwok-girl-in-translation-2011-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}