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The Barbarians Are Coming

The Barbarians Are Coming

by David Wong Louie
Publication Date: 06/03/2000

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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.<P>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.
ISBN:
9780399146039
9780399146039
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Publication Date:
06-03-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
215.9x149.86x30.99mm
Weight:
0.59kg

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