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'Alice Pung is a gem. Her voice is the real thing.' - Amy Tan At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood- leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes away from home, she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads- the love and worry of her Chinese-Cambodian 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. Praise for Unpolished Gem- 'A memoir so vivid that images from it linger behind your eyelids.' - The Age 'Unpolished Gem is virtuoso storytelling.' - The Australian 'This is a sophisticated and fiercely intelligent book.' - Helen Garner

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Emma writes: I haven't read Alice Pung's previous bestselling memoir, Unpolished Gem, so I can't compare the two, but as a stand-alone work Her Father's Daughter is simply brilliant. Told in the third person, the chapters look alternately at either Alice or her father's points of view - with her father's stories taking us into the dark history of Cambodia's killing fields, through an incredible narrative of survival and resilience, to his new life as a husband, father and business owner in Australia. Alice's story is about discovering her family's past through travel and listening to stories, about developing an identity away from her protective parents whilst remaining close to them, about being a student, and about the shock of becoming a successful author with her first book. Her Father's Daughter is a moving and powerful family story.

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Alice Pung is the author of the memoir Unpolished Gem. In 2008, Alice edited the collection Growing Up Asian in Australia.

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