Girl in Translation

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—the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family’s future resting on her shoulders, 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 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 a 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.

ISBN: 0141042745, 9780141042749

Год издания: 2011

Язык: Английский

Paperback, UK, 304 pages

Жанры:  Современная зарубежная литература, Книги для подростков

Теги:  Американская литература, Эмиграция, Современная литература, Путь к мечте, Китай, Америка, Флэшмоб 2017, Мигранты, Флэшмоб 2018, Дайте двеВсе теги

Оригинальное название - GIRL IN TRANSLATION

Главная героиня романа — китайская девочка Ким, приехавшая в Америку из Гонконга. Днем она примерная американская школьница, вечером – китайская рабыня (вместе с матерью она работает на фабрике в Чайнатауне), а ночью - борец с крысами и тараканами в неотапливаемой съемной квартире.

У Кимберли нет денег на новую одежду, косметику и прочие девичьи радости, но у нее есть способности и невероятная тяга вырваться в новую жизнь. Пусть она не понимает многого в Америке, она растеряна и напугана, но она верит в себя и не собирается отступать. Скрывая от всех свою нищету, Ким день за днем учит английский, переводит на него свою жизнь с китайского языка. Иными словами – возводит мост между прошлым и настоящим.

American Library Association Outstanding Book for the College Bound (2014)
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Columbia University Graduate Writing Division Fellowships
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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarship for Academic Achievement of the Highest Distinction