Girl in translation [sound recording] : a novel / Jean Kwok.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780142427996
- ISBN: 0142427993
- Physical Description: 8 sound discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: [New York] : Penguin Audio, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. Unabridged. Compact discs. Duration: 09:00:00. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Grayce Wey. |
Summary, etc.: | When 11-year-old 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 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. |
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Subject: | Chinese > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Women immigrants > Fiction. Chinese American teenagers > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton | C/D FIC KWO (8 CDs) (Text) | 34025125355641 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Sherman Library | ABCD F KWO (Text) | 34060146326388 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Southbury Public Library | BKCD KWOK (BOOK ON CD) (Text) | 34019124722513 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Girl in Translation
Jean Kwok has a BA in English and American Literature from Harvard University and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. She taught at the University of Leiden and is an alumnus of the Amsterdam Writing Workshops. Jean's debut novel is entitled Girl in Translation. This 2010 novel has already been sold in eight countries. It made the IBooks Best Seller List in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography)