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Her Father's Daughter (2011)

by Alice Pung(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1863955429 (ISBN13: 9781863955423)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Black Inc.

review 1: At first I found this a little slow but held in there as I've heard her speak at writers' festivals and she's certainly articulate. I could relate to much of her self-discovery. The interspersing chapters between viewpoints of father and daughter works well. The story of her father's escape from Cambodia is certainly gripping though Pung's own visit to the killing fields seemed something of an anticlimax, perhaps largely because such places are built over by subsequent generations. I will certainly read more of her books.
review 2: i found this an interesting book, it certainly takes the reader on a journey through Alice Pung's life with parents who lived through the Killing Fields - this makes for harrowing reading, as the atrocities are brought to life throug... moreh the accounts of the lives of individuals known to her father. It reminded my of other books wihc have covered the Holocaust the long lasting impacts of these experiences on the 'small things' in life - which make up our everydays. However, at it's centre is Alice, yet at the end of the book I still found myself wondering, "who is she?" - but perhaps that self knowledge is still to come like the vacant block of land waiting by the river. less

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