Girl in Translation -

Jean Kwok

Riverhead Books

2011

307 páginas

10h 14m

ISBN-13: 9781594485152

Introducing a fresh, exciting new voice, an inspiring debut about a Chinese 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 American immigrant novel—a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.

Resenhas (2)

5 (Perfeito)

Absolutamente maravilhoso

Eu suspeitava que ia gostar desse livro, mas não imaginava que ele iria me cativar tanto assim. Definitivamente entrou pro rol de livros favoritos e que eu nunca vou esquecer.

Tenho algunas ressalvas em relação ao final, mas todo o desenrolar da história foi tão cru e real que eu fiquei hipnotizada a maior parte do tempo.

Vou sentir saudades da Kimberly.