Unpolished Gem

by Alice Pung (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  Alice Pung is born in Australia to Chinese immigrants. As she dives headfirst into life in the only country she's ever known, every bedtime features a tale spun from her family's past, and every meal is accompanied by nuggets of old-fashioned Chinese wisdom.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $6.23

  With a home-grown accent and an imported heritage, Alice Pung grew up straddling two worlds. By the time she was born, her family had already made the perilous journey from revolutionary China and the killing fields of Cambodia to their new home in a prosperous Australian suburb. But even as Alice dives head-first into life in the only country she's ever known, she also understands her father's wonder at the magical workings of escalators, her grandmother's fervent blessings for the generosity of Father Government, and her mother's determination to toil every hour of the day and night. Warm-spirited and wonderfully wise, Unpolished Gem is a vibrant, irreverent portrait of the foreigner's fumbles, the everyday successes and the bittersweet bonds that hold one small family together in a big new country.