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Unpolished Gem
After Alice Pung's family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir?already an award-winning bestseller when it was published in Australia?Alice...
Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me
"Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung's rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) After Alice Pung's family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he...
'UNPOLISHED GEM: MY MOTHER, MY GRANDMOTHER AND ME'
Unpolished Gem
"This story does not begin on a boat." So commences Alice Pung's memoir. This is an original take on a classic story - how a child of immigrants moves between two cultures. In place of piety and predictability, however, Unpolished Gem offers a vivid and ironic sense...
Unpolished Gem
"This story does not begin on a boat." So commences Alice Pung's memoir. This is an original take on a classic story - how a child of immigrants moves between two cultures. In place of piety and predictability, however, Unpolished Gem offers a vivid and ironic sense...
Unpolished Gem (09) by Pung, Alice [Paperback (...
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