The Barbarians are Coming
by Louie, David Wong
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399146032
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146039
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
New York: Putnam Adult, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A highly collectible first edition/printing, protected in a new brodart wra pper. In David Wong Louie's finely crafted, funny, and exceptionally well-written coming-of-age story set in the late '70s, a young Chinese American struggles toward the American dream of affluence, leaving behind his befuddled immigrant parents and their small apartment over their laundry business. The narrator of The Barbarian's Are Coming has been trained at the Culinary Institute of America and is ready to rise to any challenge a capon or a champignon can offer. Newly appointed resident chef of the Richfield Ladies' Club in Connecticut, Sterling Lung ignores his well-coifed employers' urgings that he cook Chinese food for them. His father, on the other hand, who wanted Sterling to become a doctor, takes his revenge by never allowing his son to cook for him. Aging and unwell, he nurses a bittersweet anger at having raised a child who knows almost nothing about his family's culture, who speaks little Chinese, and who prides himself on his ignorance of Chinese cooking. On the one occasion Sterling is allowed to cook in her kitchen, his mother scowls over his shoulder, criticizing every move. "You call yourself a chef?" she prods him. "Didn't they teach you anything at that school?" She clucks her tongue and goes to the refrigerators and returns with a bottle. "Oyster sauce is always good." The store-bought sauce is against everything I've ever learned about gastronomy. Sauces are the supreme test of a chef's skill. Often, cooking is the sauce. But sauce out of a bottle, some anonymous committee of tongues in a laboratory determining the proper.
Synopsis
David Wong Louie is the author of Pangs of Love , winner of the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award and the Ploughshares First Book Award. He lives in Venice, California, and teaches at UCLA.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000014454
- Title
- The Barbarians are Coming
- Author
- Louie, David Wong
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399146032
- ISBN 13
- 9780399146039
- Publisher
- Putnam Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Brodart
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