One Hundred Days
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One Hundred Days
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Narrated by:
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Sun Park
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By:
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Alice Pung
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One hundred days. It’s no time at all, she tells me. But she’s not the one waiting.
In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, 16-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Not on purpose, but not entirely by accident, either. Incensed, Karuna’s mother, already over-protective, confines her to their 14th-storey housing-commission flat, to keep her safe from the outside world - and make sure she can’t get into any more trouble.
Stuck inside for endless hours, Karuna battles her mother and herself for a sense of power in her own life, as a new life forms and grows within her. As the due date draws ever closer, the question of who will get to raise the baby - who it will call Mum - festers between them.
One Hundred Days is a fractured fairytale exploring the fault lines between love and control. At times tense and claustrophobic, it is nevertheless brimming with humour, warmth and character. It is a magnificent new work from one of Australia’s most celebrated authors.
©2021 Alice Pung (P)2021 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdWhat listeners say about One Hundred Days
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- Bronwyn Woods
- 05-01-2023
Wonderful imeragry
Wonderful story, easy to imagine the cultural background to many of the stories. Loved it!!
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- Anonymous User
- 18-12-2021
5 stars
Great reading which really brought the characters to life with a steady pace. The story is compelling and cleverly voiced.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-10-2022
Great ending
This book got off to a slow start but about halfway through I realised that I loved this story.
The last section was magnificent.
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- Jamie
- 16-07-2021
Raw and beautiful
Alice Pung beautifully captures the raw, problematic and beautiful relationship so many mother’s and daughter navigate throughout their lives. I value Alice’s ability to capture how a mother’s excessive nurturing can be suffocating for a daughter, but from a mother’s perspective it is to protect her. This books follows a teenager, developing her relationship with her mother, as well has becoming a mother herself. It is a book that so effortlessly captures how a mother be so blinding and self-sacrificing.
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- Katrina Steffens
- 08-09-2023
A fabulous story
The mother made me want to scream with all her crazy superstitions and ridiculous opinions and the way she treated her daughter, and I felt so much empathy for Karuna.
I grew up in the 80s so it was a bit of a buzz that this book was set then.
The end of the last chapter (not the epilogue) was a bit soppy and was the only thing that detracted from the book.
The narration was perfect.
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