郭珍芳（Jean Kwok）

最受瞩目的华人作家之一。

5岁移民美国，童年时代在唐人街的制衣厂度过。她被哈佛大学提前录取，大学时期身兼4份工作。在哥伦比亚大学取得小说艺术硕士学位后，她在荷兰莱顿大学教授英文、从事英-荷语翻译，目前全职写作。

郭珍芳花10年时间写就《中国女孩耶鲁梦》，一举登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，已被介绍到17个国家，成为多所学校的必读书目。

Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.