{"product_id":"girl-in-translation-1","title":"Girl in Translation","description":"New York Times bestseller Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKimberley 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd neither one speaks one word of English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet 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 to lost girl from Hong Kong into a happy American woman? And should she?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Kwok''s powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A sensitively handled rites-of-passage account...has the unmistakable ring of authenticity'' Metro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A truly amazing story that''ll leave you full of admiration and affection for the characters'' Easy Living\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A classic and moving immigration story'' Red\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Kwok emigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn as a child; her first novel Girl in Translation is based loosely on her own experience as a Chinese immigrant in America. With Girl in Translation Jean Kwok has won the American Library Association Alex Award, an Orange New Writers title and international critical acclaim.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816596316495,"sku":"9780141042749","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780141042749_1-girl-in-translation.jpg?v=1780079648","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/girl-in-translation-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}