Alice Pung: Her Father's Daughter  Tuesday 13 September 2011
10:05AM (view full episode)  A conversation with Melbourne
writer Alice Pung about her latest book Her Father's Daughter.
Alice Pung's first novel Unpolished Gem is an affectionate,
sometimes satirical look at growing up in an Asian Australian
family.  Her latest, Her Father's Daughter, is also
biographical, but it takes the reader beyond the comfortable,
witty accounts of loving and overprotective parents to the
killing fields of Cambodia.  Add comment   Anita Barraud: Today
a conversation with Melbourne writer Alice Pung about her latest
book Her Father's Daughter.  Alice Pung's first novel Unpolished
Gem is an affectionate, sometimes satirical look at growing up
in an Asian Australian family. Her latest, Her Father's
Daughter, is also biographical, but it takes the reader beyond
the comfortable, witty accounts of loving and overprotective
family to the killing fields of Cambodia. It's at times very
uncomfortable reading.  Still only in her 30s,