Girl in translation / Jean Kwok.
Record details
- ISBN: 1594487561 : HRD
- ISBN: 9781594487569
- ISBN: 1594487561
- Physical Description: 293 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2010.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. |
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Subject: | Chinese > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Women immigrants > Fiction. Chinese American teenagers > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. |
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- 27 of 29 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 0 current holds with 29 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beardsley & Memorial Library - Winsted | FIC KWOK (Text) | 33750000036787 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F KWOK, J. (Text) | 32544073238783 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | FIC Kwo (Text) | 33160117924434 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F KWOK (Text) | 34030117402138 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bolton High School | FIC KWO (Text) | 34062102948411 | Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/KWOK (Text) | 34029120809412 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC KWOK (Text) | 34014119267566 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | FIC KWO (Text) | 34046119928862 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC KWO (Text) | 34047130332522 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC KWOK,J (Text) | 34026117561360 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary
Girl in Translation
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. Watch a Video