books in order

Alice Pung Books In Order

Laurinda Books In Order

  1. Laurinda (2014)
  2. My First Lesson (2016)

Novels

  1. Lucy and Linh (2016)
  2. One Hundred Days (2021)

Novellas

  1. In a Heartbeat (2017)

Non fiction

  1. Unpolished Gem (2006)
  2. Growing Up Asian In Australia (2008)
  3. Her Father’s Daughter (2011)
  4. On John Marsden (2017)
  5. Close to Home (2018)

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Alice Pung Books Overview

Unpolished Gem

After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought their new country was a Wonderland. In this lyrical, bittersweet debut memoir already an award winning bestseller when it was published in Australia Alice grows up straddling two worlds, East and West, her insular family and the Australia outside. With wisdom beyond her years and a keen eye for comedy in everyday life, she writes of the trials of assimilation and cultural misunderstanding, and of the tender but fraught relationships between three generations of women trying to live the Australian dream without losing themselves. Unpolished Gem is a moving, vivid journey about identity and the ultimate search for acceptance and healing, delivered by a writer possessed of rare empathy, penetrating insight, and undeniable narrative gifts.

Growing Up Asian In Australia

Asian Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one’s feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great grandfather’s Chinese village. Here are well known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Including: Shaun Tan, Jenny Kee, Annette Shun Wah, Anh Do, Khoa Do, John So, Simone Lazaroo, Christopher Cyrill, Jason Yat Sen Li, Sunil Badami, Quan Yeomans, Caroline Tran, Tom Cho, Vanessa Woods and many more…

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