One Hundred Days by Alice Pung Free PDF Download

From one of Australias most celebrated authors comes a mother-daughter drama exploring the faultlines between love and control. One hundred days. Its no time at all, she tells me. But shes not the one waiting. In a heady whirlwind of independence, lust and defiance, sixteen-year-old Karuna falls pregnant. Not on purpose, but not entirely by accident, either. Incensed, Karunas mother, already over-protective, confines her to their fourteenth-storey housing-commission flat, to keep her safe from the outside world - and make sure she cant 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 faultlines 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 Australias most celebrated writers. The tale of mothers and daughters the world over, this is truly fiction at its fiercest. It is a masterpiece, a triumph. -Maxine Beneba Clarke Pungs command as a writer is astonishing, elating. I adore this book. -Christos Tsiolkas