Alice Pung
Her Father's Daughter
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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 f…
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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.Winner of theNon-Fiction Prize: 2011 Western Australian Book AwardsShortlisted for the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-86395-542-3
- EAN: 9781863955423
- Produktnummer: 11817670
- Verlag: Black Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 252 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.3 cm 389 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 389
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