Unpolished Gem: My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me, (Paperback)

from ElizaJane

A Chinese family escapes communism by moving to Cambodia, only to find some years later that the next generation must escape from the dictator Pol Pot. This Chinese-Cambodian family of grandmother, brother, sister, and brother's eight-month pregnant wife are given a choice of Canada or Australia....

from Wassilissa

Ein ausgesprochen schönes Frauenbach aus der roten Reihe der Edition fünf. Die chinesisch-stämmige Familie der Ich-Erzählerin Alice ist vor dem Pol Pot Regime im Kambodscha nach Australien geflohen. Als Einwanderer dort möchte ihre Familie alles richtig machen und dennoch die eigenen Werte nicht ...

from zibilee

Alice Pung's family escaped from Pol Pot's viscous rule in Cambodia in 1980. Her grandmother, father and mother walked through the jungles of Vietnam into Thailand, where they settled into a refugee camp for a year before they immigrated to Australia. Alice, the first child of her parent's union,...

from tandah

A really nicely told and fresh story about the challenges faced by one family of former Cambodian/Chinees refugees who build their new life in Australia. Alice covers unique cultural mores around family, money, work, aspirations, affluence, education and cross-cultural romance. I was particularly...

from ChocolateMuse

A memoir of the daughter of Chinese-Cambodian parents growing up in Footscray, a dominantly Asian suburb of Melbourne. The author is still quite young, so the memoir doesn't take us further than her eighteenth year. Very well written - often funny, often painful - points out with wry humour the l...