The interpreter
By: Suki Kim.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Korean Americans -- Fiction.; Women translators -- Fiction.; Parents -- Death -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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. Five years earlier, her parents - hardworking greengrocers who forfeited personal happiness for their children's gain - were brutally murdered in an apparent robbery of their store. Or so Suzy believed.

But now the glint of this new lead entices Suzy into a dangerous Korean underworld in the hope of unraveling the mystery of her parents' homicide.".

"Then come the hang-up calls on her answering machine and the anonymous delivery of irises on the anniversary of her parents' death. Suzy tries to reach her estranged sister, Grace, only to find that she has vanished. Grace was last seen renting a boat in Montauk. As Suzy searches for clues to her sister's disappearance, she finds both trails converging to reveal a devastating new perspective on her family's secret past."--BOOK JACKET.