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The Interpreter

A Novel

The Interpreter( )
Author: Kim, Suki
ISBN:978-0-312-42224-0
Publication Date:Jan 2004
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.00
Book Description:

Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system who makes a startling and ominous discovery about her family history that will send her on a chilling quest. Five years prior, her parents--hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gain--were brutally murdered in an apparent robbery of their store. But the glint of a new lead entices Suzy into the dangerous Korean underworld, and ultimately reveals...
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Book Details
Pages:304
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.68 Inches
Book Weight:0.594 Pounds
Author Biography
Kim, Suki (Author)
Suki Kim is a Korean American writer who was born in Seoul, South Korea. She emigrated to the United States with her family when she was 13, moving to New York. Kim is a naturalized American citizen who graduated from Barnard College with a BA in English and a minor in East Asian Literature. She was a 2006 Guggenheim fellow. Kim's debut novel, The Interpreter, was a murder mystery about a young Korean American woman, Suzy Park, living in New York City and searching for answers as to why her shopkeeper parents were murdered. The book won the PEN Beyond Margins Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award and was a finalist for a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 2014 her non-fiction book, Without You There Is No Us, made it to the New York Times bestseller list.

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