Jean Kwok

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Girl in Translation

Beschreibung

Kimberley 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 one speaks one word of English.

Autor

Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Brooklyn, New York as a child. She received her bachelor's degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in fiction at Columbia University. After working as an English teacher and Dutch-English translator at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Jean now writes full-time. This is her first novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780141042749
• ISBN-10: 0141042745
• Artikelnr.: 31999551

Rezensionen

Warm, affecting, a compelling pleasure. Manages that rare fictional feat of shifting forever the angle from which you look at the world Daily Mail