Girl in Translation
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- ISBN13: 9781594487569
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Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.
When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn dirt, she quickly starts a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more hard truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family tree’s future resting on her shoulders, or her secret like 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 into the world between the worlds she straddles.
Through Kimberly’s tale, leader 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 make it in America, their duty to their family tree, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an quick 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 novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and like, and all that gets lost in translation.
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Language no English, Eleven year ancient Kimberly and her mom travel from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, in hopes for a better life. They soon realize New York is not all what they dreamed or hoped for. Surrounded by poverty and having to work in a sweatshop her hope seems so far away. To try and keep a small of that hope she turns to the one thing that she feels she has a talent for and that is school work. She feels this is a way to better herself and the situation.
I loved Kimberly tale. This is a book that will certainly take you through a range of different emotions. I was in awe of the journey. I have read many tales about immigrants, but none that took place in the present day. Girl in Translation was a gorgeous, inspiring and an intimate look at immigrant life. A captivating tale that can be loved by readers of all ages.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book’s premise is appealing and unique, but it ends poorly; it smacks of an adolescent romance at its conclusion.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This novel is one of the best I have read
this year.
The tale is incredible and it is a real
page turner.
I highly recommend it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Girl in Translation is the tale of Kimberly, who comes to New York from Hong Kong with her mother when she is 11 years ancient. Kimberly was a star student in Hong Kong and her mother was a composition teacher, but soon after arriving in America, they learn that their lives will be much different. Kimberly struggles to keep up in school, and her mother slaves in a garment factory owned by her brother in law. Kimberly must help her mother in the factory, and they live in dirt and filth in an unheated apartment. As Kimberly starts to excel once again in school, she realizes that education is her ticket out. But will she achieve her dreams, or will her ties keep her in Chinatown forever.
Girl in Translation is a coming of age tale with a twist provided by the main character’s immigrant experience. Although it was appealing to read about how Kimberly’s life was and how hard she had to work to achieve her dreams, I felt like the novel was emotionally flat, because Kimberly simply stated the hardships of her life as facts, as a replacement for of discussing how they effected her or made her feel. Perhaps this is the diference between my American sensibilities and the immigrant experience, but this emotional element is very vital for me to get into a novel. Only in the last third of the book did I feel like Kimberly really opened her heart to the reader, and then I was able to truly engage in the novel and the fantastic challenges that Kimberly had to overcome. In the end I liked this book, but I wish Kimberly’s transformation had happened a bit earlier, so I could have loved her inner might, kindness, and wisdom, thorughout.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I guess I wanted more. I have loved “Shanghai Girls” and additional recent books about young Asian women adjusting to life in America (or life in China or Japan, for that matter — the exquisite customs, the gorgeous language, the heartfelt expectations). And if this were a work of non-fiction perhaps it would have more of an edge. Rather, it’s a simple tale of two kind people being treated poorly by a cruel relative. The plot was predictable, the characters were cliches and altogether a too simplified and disappointing read.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5