Her father's daughter / / Alice Pung
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| Autore: |
Pung Alice
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| Titolo: |
Her father's daughter / / Alice Pung
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| Pubblicazione: | Collingwood, Victoria : , : Black Inc., , 2013 |
| ©2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.895932094510922 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Her father's daughter |
| ISBN: | 1-921870-89-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814968203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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