Unpolished Gem [ebook]
Pung, Alice2006
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-- 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 schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. Her mother becomes an Aussie battler – an outworker, that is. Her father embraces the miracle of franchising and opens an electrical-appliance store. And every day her grandmother blesses Father Government for giving old people money. -- -- -- ‘ -- ‘Offer(s) a rare bicultural vantage point on Australian multiculturalism’ — -- ‘A memoir so vivid that images from it linger behind your eyelids.’ — -- -- ‘Intelligent and touching’ —Herald Sun -- Unpolished Gem and My First Lesson. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Main title:
Unpolished Gem [ebook] / Pung, Alice.
Author:
Pung, Alice, authorCloud
Work:
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd, 2006.
Collation:
1 online resource288 p.
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd 2006 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 540.0 KB)
ISBN:
9781921825385
Language:
English
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BRN:
461629