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The Barbarians Are Coming Hardcover - 2000

by David Wong Louie


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Sterling Lung grew up in the back of his parent's laundry dreaming about being a real American while speaking Chinese to his mother, English to his friends, and very little to the father he seemed always to disappoint. Now twenty-six and a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Sterling cooks French food for the WASP ladies of a private club in Connecticut and conducts an arm's-length affair with an old Swarthmore classmate, a Jewish-American Princess from New Canaan, thereby frustrating his father's dream of a doctor son and his mother's scheme for a Chinese bride. For Sterling's parents, the barbarians are not coming: they are here now.

In a tale that alternates between black comedy and out-and-out slapstick, between the pain of a son alienated from his father and a father an alien in his son's native land, The Barbarians Are Coming reveals the deep psychic wounds each man has suffered even as it ultimately leads to a reconciliation that is as moving as it is necessary. Here is a tale of the immigrant experience -- indeed, of the American experience: of the deracination of the second generation and the wrenching losses of the first.

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  • Title The Barbarians Are Coming
  • Author David Wong Louie
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 372
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Marian Wood Book, New York
  • Date 2000-03-06
  • ISBN 9780399146039 / 0399146032
  • Weight 1.26 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.85 x 1.34 in (21.79 x 14.86 x 3.40 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Chinese Americans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99036902
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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