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UNPOLISHED GEM 
Author:   Alice Pung  
RRP:   $26.95
Online Price :  $24.26
10+ Copy Price :  $22.91         
20+ Copy Price :  $21.56
Format:   Paperback 
Type of Book:   Australian Novel 
Age:   16+ 
ISBN:   9781863951586
Category:   Autobiography
Published:   28/08/2006
Status:   Subject To Availability
This title has not been ordered recently, therefore the availability with the publisher is unknown. This title is likely to be available, publishers will either supply stock immediately or provide a status report. This title can be ordered.


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"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.


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History Year 10 The Modern World and Australia


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UNPOLISHED GEM
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