- Title:
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Unpolished Gem
- Written by:
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Alice Pung
- Read by:
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Melissa Chambers
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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7
- Duration:
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7 hours 57 minutes
- Published:
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May 01 2012
- Available Date:
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June 28 2012
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743112991
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Price
Bolinda price
Bestseller
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / Newcomer of the Year 2006
Shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2006
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2006
"There’s something striking on every page of Unpolished Gem."
Helen Garner, award-winning author of The Spare Room
"Pung has a seductive way with language, an eye for telling detail and a gift for comic dialogue."
Australian Book Review
Unpolished Gem is an audiobook rich in comedy with a loving and irreverent portrait of a family, its everyday struggles and bittersweet triumphs.
'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 of both worlds. It combines the story of Pung’s life growing up in suburban Footscray with the inherited stories of the women in her family – stories of madness, survival and heartbreak.
Original and brave, this is a girl’s own story that introduces an unforgettable voice and captures the experience of Asian immigrants to Australia.
"... an intelligent and touching insight into the culture-hopping that so many first-generation Australians undertake."
The Herald Sun