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Mar, 2012 jean kwok s debut novel girl in translation became a new york times bestseller and has been published in 16 countries. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. The girl in translation is a literature, fiction and thriller novel that describes the story of a girl and her mother. Jean kwok is the awardwinning, new york times and international bestselling author of searching for sylvie lee coming june 4, 2019, girl in translation and mambo in chinatown. Her work has been published in eighteen countries and taught in universities, colleges, and high schools across the world. For those of you who dont know what the book is about, heres the synopsis.
The first edition of the novel was published in april 29th 2010, and was written by jean kwok. When kim was 11 years old, she and her mother moved from hong kong to new york. Review of girl in translation by jean kwok rhapsody in. A resolute yet naive chinese girl confronts poverty and culture shock with equal zeal when she and her mother immigrate to brooklyn in kwoks. Television documentary about girl in translation author jean kwok duration. The main characters of this fiction, historical story are kimberly chang, aunt paula. Usa today kwok drops you right inside kimberlys head, adding chinese idioms to crisp dialogue. Jean kwok is the awardwinning, new york times and international bestselling chinese american author of the novels girl in translation, mambo in chinatown, and searching for sylvie lee, which was chosen as the today show book club pick. Through kimberlys 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.
When kwok was five years old, her family emigrated to brooklyn, new york from hong kong. A reader can, of course, only be as good as the book and hopefully jean kwok will follow this with another of the same quality. Free download or read online girl in translation pdf epub book. Introducing a fresh, exciting chineseamerican voice, girl in translation is an. The books which were not ya, however, i was hesitant to read. The second reason i chose fiction was that i wanted girl in translation to be the kind of book that was both entertaining and enlightening. Girl in translation should come with a warning do not expect to get anything done once you start this book. I read girl in translation by jean kwok at a time when i read little fiction.
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Jean is the awardwinning and international bestselling chinese american author. Girl in translation by jean kwok penguin books australia. Author jean kwok draws on her own experiences as a young immigrant to write girl in translation, which makes her heroines inner life feel intimately and unflinchingly real. When young kimberly chang and her mother emigrate from hong kong to. Jun 19, 2017 the book i started reading last week was girl in translation by jean kwok. Girl in translation by jean kwok 9781594485152 booktopia. Girl in translation by jean kwok devourer of books. Jean received her bachelors degree from harvard and completed an mfa in fiction at columbia.
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