- Death, Women interpreters, Fiction, Korean Americans
"Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean-American interpreter for the New York City courts. During one court case she inadvertently makes a startling and ominous discovery about her family's history that will send her on a chilling quest.
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Suki Kim
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Picador, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374177133
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