Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Suki Kim graduated from Barnard College in New York and studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Her first novel, The Interpreter, won the PEN Beyond Margins Award and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award as well as being a runner up for the PEN Hemingway Prize.  Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, and etc. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

The runner-up for PEN HEMINGWAY PRIZE.
The winner of PEN BEYOND MARGINS AWARD.
The winner of GUSTAVUS MYERS OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD.

Suzy Park is a twenty-nine-year-old Korean American interpreter for the New York City court system. Young, attractive, and achingly alone, she makes a startling and ominous discovery during one court case that forever alters her family's history. 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 fruit and vegetable stand. Or so Suzy believed. But the glint of a new lead entices Suzy into the dangerous Korean underworld, and ultimately reveals the mystery of her parents' homicide.

An auspicious debut about the myth of the model Asian citizen, The Interpreter traverses the distance between old worlds and new, poverty and privilege, language and understanding.

US: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
France: Calmann Lévy
Italy: Terre Di Mezzo
Japan: Shueisha
The Netherlands: Contact
South Korea: Minumsa Hwangeumgaji