Her father's daughter / / Alice Pung

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814968203321
• Autore: Pung Alice
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Collingwood, Victoria : , : Black Inc., , 2013; ©2011
• ISBN: 1-921870-89-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.895932094510922
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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 f