by Jean Kwok · Maeva Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415120094
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«El silencio de las palabras» is the contemporary novel by Jean Kwok, published by Maeva Ediciones in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
After her father's death, Kim Chank leaves Hong Kong to settle in New York with her mother. She barely knows English, struggles to keep up at school, and works afternoons in a sweatshop where they exploit her. The apartment is unsanitary; even so, she finds in Matt a friend and a first love she must hide while trying to grow up between two worlds.
The work was originally published as Girl in Translation (2010), translated into Spanish by Álvaro Abella Villar. Winner of the ALA Alex Award.
For readers of contemporary and coming-of-age fiction, with an interest in stories of immigration and overcoming adversity; also suitable for book clubs.
Jean Kwok is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling Chinese American author of the novels Girl in Translation, Mambo in Chinatown, and Searching for Sylvie Lee, which was chosen as The Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.
