郭珍芳(Jean Kwok)
最受矚目的華人作傢之一。
5歲移民美國,童年時代在唐人街的製衣廠度過。她被哈佛大學提前錄取,大學時期身兼4份工作。在哥倫比亞大學取得小說藝術碩士學位後,她在荷蘭萊頓大學教授英文、從事英-荷語翻譯,目前全職寫作。
郭珍芳花10年時間寫就《中國女孩耶魯夢》,一舉登上《紐約時報》暢銷書排行榜,已被介紹到17個國傢,成為多所學校的必讀書目。
From Publishers Weekly
A resolute yet naïve Chinese girl confronts poverty and culture shock with equal zeal when she and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn in Kwok's affecting coming-of-age debut. Ah-Kim Chang, or Kimberly as she is known in the U.S., had been a promising student in Hong Kong when her father died. Now she and her mother are indebted to Kimberly's Aunt Paula, who funded their trip from Hong Kong, so they dutifully work for her in a Chinatown clothing factory where they earn barely enough to keep them alive. Despite this, and living in a condemned apartment that is without heat and full of roaches, Kimberly excels at school, perfects her English, and is eventually admitted to an elite, private high school. An obvious outsider, without money for new clothes or undergarments, she deals with added social pressures, only to be comforted by an understanding best friend, Annette, who lends her makeup and hands out American advice. A love interest at the factory leads to a surprising plot line, but it is the portrayal of Kimberly's relationship with her mother that makes this more than just another immigrant story. (May)
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Review
"Though the plot may sound mundane - a Chinese girl and her mother immigrate to this country and succeed despite formidable odds - this coming-of-age tale is anything but. Whether Ah-Kim (or Kimberly, as she's called) is doing piecework on the factory floor with her mother, or suffering through a cold New York winter in a condemned, roach-infested apartment, or getting that acceptance letter from Yale, her story seems fresh and new."
-Entertainment Weekly
"The astonishing - and semi-autobiographical - tale of a girl from Hong Kong who, at age eleven, shoulders the weight of her mother's American dream all the way from Chinatown sweatshop to the Ivy League."
-Vogue
"Part fairy tale, part autobiography... what puts this debut novel toward the top of the pile is its buoyant voice and its slightly subversive ending that suggests "happily ever after" may have more to do with love of self and of family than with any old Prince Charming."
-O, The Oprah Magazine
"Dazzling fiction debut."
-Marie Claire
"In Kimberly Chang, Jean Kwok has created a gentle and unassuming character. But Kimberly is also very clever, and as she struggles to escape the brutal trap of poverty she proves indomitable. With her keen intelligence and her reservoir of compassion, she's irresistibly admirable, as is the whole of this gripping, luminous novel."
-Joanna Scott, author of Follow Me
"I love how this book allowed me to see my own country, with all its cruelty and kindness, from a perspective so different from my own. I love how it invited me into the heart and mind of Kimberly Chang, whose hard choices will resonate with anyone who has sacrificed for a dream. Powerful storytelling kept me turning the pages quickly, but Kimberly's voice-so smart and clear-will stay with me for a long time."
-Laura Moriarty, author of While I'm Falling
Finally, the heat got so bad that Ma bought us a small fan and we set it in front of our mattresses. After work, we both caught our breath in front of that fan, sitting on the mattresses on the floor, our backs resting against the wall. Slowly, two yellowis...
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評分不知为何,看完这本书我的心久久不能平静,从身体到心灵的震撼无法言语。书片中的她——阿金,是如此平凡,出生在一个并不美满甚至是糟糕的家庭,年幼的她默默承受着一切。 我觉得这本书没有冠冕堂皇的大道理,却是一部真实的励志传记。还真实反映了一个人的善良心灵。它写了一...
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評分A so explicitly written novel about a chinese girl's strugling study and living life in USA. Deep, reasonable and enlightening, making one question American dream worth or not. One unsatisfying elements of the story is the abortion part---since she did have...
小說裏的愛情還是悲劇的好啊……
评分還不錯吧 原本不是還在描述女主多麼好學生 突然就懷孕瞭...還跟matt分手後自己生下孩子... 但總體還是比較簡單地閱讀的 劇情也還ok 沒有太過於無聊。但是真的很不現實 哪有每天working in factory yet still gets all the perfect scores and ends up going to Yale with full scholarship??高中給的六年全奬也完全不realtistic 當然如果是親身經曆當我沒說
评分How to shoulder an American dream by your own? ..you have to sink yourself in a totally diff world to know the world you live in better.
评分中文翻譯太媚俗瞭……不太喜歡結尾
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