''The Interpreter'' is a 2003 murder mystery novel by
Suki Kim. A twenty-nine-year-old
Korean American
Korean Americans () are Americans of full or partial Korean ethnic descent. While the broader term Overseas Korean in America () may refer to all ethnic Koreans residing in the United States, the specific designation of Korean American impli ...
court interpreter, Suzy Park, is startled to discover during a case that her parents' homicide was not random.
Summary
Korean American Suzy Park works as a
court interpreter for the
New York City courts. She has had two rocky relationships with married men, worked a series of unsatisfying jobs, and cut ties with her family before her parents were shot in an unsolved double murder. During a court case, she discovers that her parents were not murdered by random violence, as the police had indicated, but instead had been shot by political enemies. The discovery motivates Park to investigate what really happened.
Awards and nomination
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PEN/Beyond Margins Award
* Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
* Runner-up for the
PEN/Hemingway Prize
Translations
*Dutch:
*French:
*Korean:
*Japanese:
Sources
Interview: Suki Kim and the Interpreter
Further reading
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2003 American novels
American mystery novels
Interpreter
Interpreting is translation from a spoken or signed language into another language, usually in real time to facilitate live communication. It is distinguished from the translation of a written text, which can be more deliberative and make use o ...
Novels set in New York City
Fiction about interpreting and translation
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