Her father's daughter /

Winner of the Non-Fiction Prize at the 2011 Western Australian Book AwardsAt 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pung, Alice
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Collingwood, Vic. : Black Inc., 2012.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Pung, Alice > Family.
Pung, Alice
Asians > Australia > Melbourne (Vic.) > Biography.
Fathers and daughters > Australia.
Asiatiques > Australie > Melbourne (Vict.) > Biographies.
Pères et filles > Australie.
Asians
Families
Fathers and daughters
Australia
Victoria > Melbourne
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • HER FATHER'S DAUGHTER; Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; PROLOGUE; Stay and defend; Far from home; PART I. CHINA; Beginnings; Ford; Foreign bodies; Companions in the glass; Haircut; Return; PART II. MELBOURNE; Her new home; Visitors; Away from home; Invisible; Agency; The surface of things; A plot of land; Arriving; Friends from afar; The wonder of whitegoods; State of emergency; The knife; Dogs and cats; Tiptoe; Smile like a sickle; The bus; PART III. CAMBODIA: YEAR ZERO; Saloth Sar; The factory; Menu using wartime rations; Year Zero: 17 April 1975; The car; Angkar; Burial.
  • Revolutionary medicineFertiliser team; All you can eat; The belt; Cats and dogs; The secret life of the senses; Ice; After Zero: Saigon, 1979; Kien; PART IV. CAMBODIA; Dismemory; Arrival; Tread lightly; Brother; Safe; The field (i); The field (ii); EPILOGUE; Celebration; Kien; Mirrors; Waiting; Night-time at home; Acknowledgments.

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