Girl in translation
Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York.
149 kr
Beskrivning
- Författare: Kwok, Jean
- Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
- ISBN: 9780141042749
- Lästid: 4 timmar lästid
- Sidor: 293
- Språk: Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum: 2011-06-02
Kimberly 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. And neither speaks one word of English. Yet 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 the lost girl from Hong Kong into a happy American woman? And should she? Jean Kwok's powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation.
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