Details Regarding Books Girl in Translation
| Title | : | Girl in Translation |
| Author | : | Jean Kwok |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | April 29th 2010 by Riverhead |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Contemporary. Cultural. China. Adult Fiction |
Jean Kwok
Hardcover | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 3.98 | 45393 Users | 5594 Reviews
Chronicle As Books 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.Present Books In Favor Of Girl in Translation
| Original Title: | Girl in Translation |
| ISBN: | 1594487561 (ISBN13: 9781594487569) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Kimberly Chang, Aunt Paula, Uncle Bob, Matt Wu, Annette Avery, Curt |
| Setting: | Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2011), Lincoln Award Nominee (2016), Suburban Mosaic Book of the Year (2011), Chinese Library Association Best Book (2010), John Gardner Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2011) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Debut Author (2010) |
Rating Regarding Books Girl in Translation
Ratings: 3.98 From 45393 Users | 5594 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books Girl in Translation
I've never read a book that described more accurately what it is like to be an Asian American immigrant.It's like Ms. Kwok took pieces of my own experience (growing up in a cockroach-infested apartment with parents scraping by by working multiple menial jobs), and lines lifted from my friends' stories (calling an eraser a rubber, telling parents report cards came out only at the end of the year) and merged them with a thrilling and thoroughly absorbing story.The novel takes the Chinese immigrantYou probably don't want to listen to my rating, because I'm just a bit biased. However, I'd like to thank everyone who's posted here. Whether you love the book or hate it doesn't matter, I'm just glad you've taken the time to read it.
I was very impressed with this book. It teaches important life lessons, such as the amount of money you have or earn doesn't define who you are as a person. This is shown throughout the book as Kim and her mom make nearly pennies a day but continue to be very positive people and it doesn't stop Kim from her school studies. It was a very easy story to follow and readers never knew what was going to happen next. There are few reviews about this book on goodreads, but all of them are positive and
4.5. I read Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok at a time when I read little fiction. I found the book at one of my favorite places- the check out counter at the library- and grabbed it because of its vivid colored cover. In this debut novel, Kwok tells the story of Kimberly Chang and her mother, immigrants from Hong Kong to Brooklyn. Forced to live in a condemned apartment and work in horrid conditions because their sponsor, Kimberley's aunt, feels as though they are burden on society, Kimberly
While looking at the upcoming release from Jean Kwok, I went back to my review and decided to update it. I have increased the rating from 4 to 5 stars as this is one of a few novels that has stayed with me a couple of years after reading.I actually obtained this book for my wife as it was on a "top twenty books a woman should read" list. Having found it on such a list, I assumed that it would be some form of "chick-lit". Needing something to read and finding the synopsis to be interesting, I
I was loving and enjoying this book, but the last fourth of the book Jean Kwok changed Kimberly's personality. She also changed Matt into a jerk by making him randomly unsupportive of Kims aspirations. After Kim decided against having an abortion, she withheld her child from having a good father. She wouldn't have had to give up Yale--or even a career--for a marriage and family with Matt. It was unrelatable! The only reason Kim didn't try to get back together with Matt, after she decided against
Somehow, I managed to finish this book, though I complained about it the entire time (I know, my own fault, I should have shut up or stopped reading it). I could not understand the rave reviews about it and couldn't fathom that people had read the same book that I was reading until I realized a consistent flaw in how we review both books and film: too often, people are praising the story itself rather than the telling of the story. Which is what I believe happened with this book. I suffered
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