{"product_id":"girl-in-translation-by-jean-kwok","title":"Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGirl in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd neither one speaks one word of English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Kwok's powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A sensitively handled rites-of-passage account...has the unmistakable ring of authenticity' \u003ci\u003eMetro \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A truly amazing story that'll leave you full of admiration and affection for the characters' \u003ci\u003eEasy Living \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A classic and moving immigration story' \u003ci\u003eRed \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean Kwok emigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn as a child; her first novel \u003ci\u003eGirl in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780141042749\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43009850703935,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/8626\/8223\/files\/5229473482238.jpg?v=1773661972","url":"https:\/\/bookconnection.com.au\/products\/girl-in-translation-by-jean-kwok","provider":"The Book Connection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}