Unpolished Gem
By Alice Pung
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This story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves.
In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream – Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into
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Unpolished Gem
9781921825385
by Alice Pung
Black Inc.
31 August 2006
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288
540.1 KB
English
Awards
Winner of Australian Book Industry Awards 2007
Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2007 AU
Author Biography
Alice Pung is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of the memoirs Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter, and the essay collection Close to Home, as well as the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. One Hundred Days is her most recent novel.