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1 Unpolished Gem/Gemma impura the Journey from Australia to Italy of Alice Pung’s Bestselling Novel Adele D'Arcangelo , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 1 2014; 'Alice Pung's Unpolished Gem was translated into Italian in 2010. Giving some examples of the challenge this work of translation presented, Adele D'Arcangelo will try to put Pung's novel in the picture of a wider production of multicultural literature available in Italy. Positive aspects related to the reception of Gemma Impura in Italy will be pointed out as well as the vital and fundamental collaboration between author and translator. The innate potentialities of Unpolished Gem to transform a personal experience in a universal one were doubled by the translation of the book in another language, allowing a wider and more eclectic readership to become familiar with Alice's story, and making its Australian setting overcome the boundaries of language and space.' (Publication abstract)
1 Between 'Aussies' and 'Wah-sers' : Translating Alice Pung's 'Unpolished Gem' into Italian Adele D'Arcangelo , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Creative Constraints : Translation and Authorship 2012; (p. 89-101) 'In this chapter I discuss some aspects of my translation of Alice Pung's best-selling Australian novel Unpolished Gem, considering which constraining elements - both in Pung's creative writing process and in my translation - represented challenges and pushed author and translator to creatively overcome the limits imposed by those constraints' (p. 89).
4 38 y separately published work icon Unpolished Gem Unpolished Gem : My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me Alice Pung , ( trans. Adele D'Arcangelo with title Gemma impura ) Italy : Mobydick , 2010 Z1301370 2006 single work autobiography (taught in 6 units)

Unpolished Gem tells the story of growing up with a Chinese-Cambodian family in Australia, Alice dives headfirst into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. Meanwhile, her mother becomes an Aussie Battler - an outworker, that is, her father starts up a chain of electrical appliance stores, and her grandmother blesses Father Government every day for giving old people money. (Back cover blurb).
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