The Barbarians are Coming

The Barbarians are Coming
Cover photo of the Penguin paperback edition
AuthorDavid Wong Louie
LanguageEnglish
SubjectChinese Americans fiction, Black humor
Genrenovel
PublishedG.P. Putnam's Sons, 2000
Publication placeUnited States
Pages372
AwardsShirley Collier Prize
ISBN9780399146039
OCLC41606328

The Barbarians are Coming is a novel by David Wong Louie.

The novel tells the story of a Chinese American man trying to make it in the United States while dealing with his immigrant parents and their desires for their son.[1][2][3][4]

The book was released in 2000 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, and received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly,[4] The Los Angeles Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle,[5] and Ploughshares.[3]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Xu, Wenying. “Class and Cuisine in David Wong Louie’s The Barbarians Are Coming." Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature, University of Hawaii Press, 2008, Chapter 3, pp. 62–93. JSTOR. Accessed December 24, 2024.
  2. ^ Eder, Richard (April 2, 2000). "Now We're Cooking". The New York Times. Retrieved December 24, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Lee, Don (2000). "Reviewed work: The Barbarians Are Coming, David Wong Louie". Ploughshares. 26 (2/3): 225–227. JSTOR 40352827.
  4. ^ a b Staff writer (February 28, 2000). "Review: The Barbarians Are Coming". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
  5. ^ "'Barbarians' to Invade Chronicle Book Club". 19 March 2000.

Further reading

Excerpt from book. "Chapter 1". The New York Times. April 2000. Retrieved December 24, 2024.


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