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Escrita con una voz inolvidable, esta novela relata las experiencias de una joven inmigrante china en el Brooklyn de los anos setenta, que crece rodeada de una lengua y un mundo que solo puede entender a medias, y siempre a caballo entre el amor a su tradicion y el deseo de avanzar hacia un futuro mejor. Tras la muerte de su padre, Kim Chank deja Honk Kong con once anos para trasladarse junto a su...

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (American-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works— miserably—as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as...

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York?s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie?s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works?miserably?as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a...

В одиннадцать лет в судьбе Кимберли Чанг началась новая глава – вместе с мамой она эмигрировала из Гонконга в Америку. Практически без денег, знания языка и четких представлений, что ее ждет. И вскоре у Кимберли начинается двойная жизнь: днем она как все учится в школе, а вечером как рабыня надрывается на маленькой швейной фабрике в Чайнатауне. Она вынуждена скрывать свою нищету и работу от однокл...

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older da...

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-...

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...

Escrita con una voz inolvidable, esta novela relata las experiencias de una joven inmigrante china en el Brooklyn de los anos setenta, que crece rodeada de una lengua y un mundo que solo puede entender a medias, y siempre a caballo entre el amor a su tradicion y el deseo de avanzar hacia un futuro mejor. Tras la muerte de su padre, Kim Chank deja Honk Kong con once anos para trasladarse junto a su...

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (American-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works— miserably—as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as...

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York?s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie?s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works?miserably?as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a...

В одиннадцать лет в судьбе Кимберли Чанг началась новая глава – вместе с мамой она эмигрировала из Гонконга в Америку. Практически без денег, знания языка и четких представлений, что ее ждет. И вскоре у Кимберли начинается двойная жизнь: днем она как все учится в школе, а вечером как рабыня надрывается на маленькой швейной фабрике в Чайнатауне. Она вынуждена скрывать свою нищету и работу от однокл...