![]() Winner of the Australian Newcomer of the Year in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards One Hundred Days is her most recent novel. Her first novel, Laurinda, won the Ethel Turner Prize at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. 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. With it, Australian writing gains an unforgettable new voice.Īlice Pung is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne. Unpolished Gem is a book rich in comedy, a loving and irreverent portrait of a family, its everyday struggles and bittersweet triumphs. And every day her grandmother blesses Father Government for giving old people money. Her father embraces the miracle of franchising and opens an electrical-appliance store. Her mother becomes an Aussie battler – an outworker, that is. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. ![]() In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream – Asian style. ![]() Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. ![]()
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