Alice Pung: 9 books

Winner, 2011 Western Australian Book Awards At 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...

A BRILLIANT COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S LEADING WRITERS Close to Home brings together Alice Pung’s most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best – an irresistible pleasure...

**“Poignant, provocative, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, Pung’s rollicking tale of two worlds is not to be missed.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) After Alice Pung’s family fled to Australia from the killing fields of Cambodia, her father chose Alice as her name because he thought...

From an author Amy Tan calls “a gem,”this is a witty, highly acclaimed novel that’s “part Mean Girls, part Lord of the Flies” (The Bulletin, Starred review) about navigating life in private school while remaining true to yourself. Lucy is a bit of a pushover, but she’s ambitious...

"Ungeschliffener Diamant", 2007 als bestes australisches Debüt ausgezeichnet, erzählt von den Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens in einer globalisierten Welt: Als Tochter chinesisch-kambodschanischer Einwanderer wächst Alice mitten in Melbourne zwischen Hausgöttern, Aberglauben und strengen...

It's 1983 . . . and Marly needs a job.� She wants to buy Donkey Kong cards to swap with the other kids at school, but her parents think the cards are a waste of money.� Then Marly's friend Yousra gives her an idea, and she decides to start her own business.� But working on your own isn't easy,...

It's 1983 . . . and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School.� But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn't make things easy, and when Marly's cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun of them.� How can Marly stay loyal to her cousins and keep her school...

It's 1983... and baby mania has struck Marly's house with the arrival of her baby brother. But Marly never realised that a new baby would take up so much of everyone's time! No one's helping her with her costume for the school concert. Marly's secret plan is to perform the Moonwalk, the dance she's...

It's 1983 . . . and there's excitement in Marly's house.� Her grandparents have arrived from Vietnam, and soon her mum will have a new baby.� While Grandma tries to make Marly into a 'young lady', Grandpa digs up the back yard. Then he brings home Agnes, a goat!� But the neighbours want Agnes...