Her Father's Daughter
by Alice Pung
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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, show more Alice embarks on a journey of painful discovery: of memories lost and found, of her own fears for the f show lessTags
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I didn't really like how it was written in the third person, and how the author would refer to herself as 'her' rather than 'I' or 'me' - that took some getting used to. Otherwise it was good and I learnt a lot about a subject I didn't know a lot about.
To begin with I didn't like this book much. The author is writing a personal family story, but in the third person, which I found hard to get used to. Her style is also very short and sharp and does not allow for many descriptive passages. However when I became accustomed to this style I quite liked the story and realised that she was deliberately distancing herself in order to tell her father's story. His deliberate attempts to disremember the past and her desire to know, eventually helped her to understand why her father was so strict and possessive.
I didn't really like how it was written in the third person, and how the author would refer to herself as 'her' rather than 'I' or 'me' - that took some getting used to. Otherwise it was good and I learnt a lot about a subject I didn't know a lot about.
Strangely unsatisfying. Doesn't live up to the promise of Pung's first book.
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Alice Pung was born in 1981 in Footscray, Australia. She has attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her first book, Unpolished Gem, won the 2007 Newcomer of the Year Award in the Australian Book Industry Awards. She is the editor of Growing up Asian in Australia (2008). Her other books include Her Father's Daughter show more and Laurinda, which is being adapted into a film. She is also a solicitor and an art instructor. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Her Father's Daughter
- Original publication date
- 2011-07-01
- Important places
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Cambodia
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306.87420994 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Marriage, partnerships, unions; family Intrafamily relationships Parent-child relationship Father-child relationship Fatherhood - topical division Biography And History Pacific
- LCC
- DU228.9 .A73 .P864 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Oceania (South Seas) History of Oceania (South Seas) Australia Victoria Local history and description
- BISAC
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- Members
- 74
- Popularity
- 414,431
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.81)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- UPCs
- 1
- ASINs
- 3
