The Interpreter (novel)

The Interpreter

OCLC

606927844

The Interpreter is a 2003 murder mystery novel by

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

• PEN/Beyond Margins Award
• Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
• Runner-up for the
  PEN/Hemingway Prize

Translations

• Dutch: Thera Idema [translator] (2003), De tolk, Amsterdam: Contact,
  OCLC 66763484 {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help
  )
• French: Marie Boudewyn [translator] (2004), L'interprète : roman, Paris: Calmann-Lévy,
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  )
• Korean: Yi Eum-seon [이은선, translator] (2005), 통역사 [Tongyeoksa], 황금가지 [Hwanggeum Gaji],
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  )
• Japanese: Kunishige Junji [國重純二, translator] (2007), Tsūyaku/Intāpuritā 通訳/インタープリター, 英社 [Shūeisha],
  OCLC 675929390 {{citation}}: |author= has generic name (help
  )

Sources

• Interview: Suki Kim and the Interpreter

Further reading

• Kim, Jini H. (2006), From the womb of Han: transferential melancholia in Suki Kim's The Interpreter and Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker, M.A. Thesis, Georgetown University,
  OCLC 84926433