Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung

Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung

Winner of the Non-Fiction Prize in the 2011 WA Premier's Book Awards

Shortlisted for the Non-Fiction Prize in the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards

'Alice Pung is a gem. Her voice is the real thing.' -Amy Tan

At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her parents, who want more than anything to keep her from harm. Her father fears for her safety to an extraordinary degree - but why? As she digs further into her father's story, Alice embarks on a journey of painful discovery: of memories lost and found, of her own fears for the future, of history and how it echoes down the years.

Set in Melbourne, China and Cambodia, Her Father's Daughter captures a father-daughter relationship in a moving and astonishingly powerful way.

'A beautiful exploration of father-daughter relationships' Vogue 'Remarkably tender and thoughtful' The Sunday Age

'Pung has an extraordinary story to tell and the finesse to bring it, most movingly, to the page.' The Monthly

Alice Pung's first book, Unpolished Gem, won the Australian Book Industry Newcomer of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Victorian and New South Wales Premiers' Literary Awards. She edited the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia and her work has appeared in the Monthly, Good Weekend, the Age, The Best Australian Stories and Meanjin.

'Pung makes everything she writes about shine.' - The Australian

Alice Pung is the author of the bestselling memoirs Unpolished Gem, which was published by Penguin in the United States and has been published in several translations, and the award-winning Her Father's Daughter. She is also the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia and the author of the Marly books in the Our Australian Girl series. Learn more about Alice and her books at AlicePung.net.

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ISBN 13	9781863955423
ISBN 10	1863955429
Title	Her Father's Daughter
Author	Alice Pung
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Black Inc.
Year published	2011-08-29
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.