Shortlisted 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards, 2007 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, 2007 Age Book of the Year Awards, 2006 Colin Roderick Award and the 2007 The Westfield/Waverley Library Award for Literature
Winner of the Australian Newcomer of the Year Award in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards With it, Australian writing gains an unforgettable new voice. Unpolished Gem is a book rich in comedy, a loving and irreverent portrait of a family, its everyday struggles and bittersweet triumphs. And every day her grandmother blesses Father Government for giving old people money. Her father embraces the miracle of franchising and opens an electrical-appliance store. Her mother becomes an Aussie battler – an outworker, that is. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head- first into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream – Asian style. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves. Summary This story does not begin on a boat. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Unpolished Gem Alice Pung We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog.
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