Girl in Translation Jean Kwok

Kimberly 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. And neither speaks one word of English.Yet 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 the lost girl from Hong Kong into a happy American woman? And should she?Jean Kwok?s powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Girl in Translation (Jean Kwok)