Pangs of Love and Other Writings (Classics of Asian American Literature)

An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family's history of untimely death.First issued in 1991, Pangs of Love introduced David Wong Louie's bold storytelling. The son of Chinese immigrants, he centered his stories around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, disconnected from both American society and their own families. The depth of his portrayals renders their experiences of love, envy, loneliness, loss, and duty universal―informed by their heritage yet not confined by it. These twelve short stories and one essay swerve from the absurd to longing for love, understanding, or simply a morsel of food.Pangs of Love and Other Writings makes Louie's debut book available again, along with an additional short story and an extraordinary autobiographical essay, "Eat, Memory," in which he reflects on life without food after throat cancer took away his ability to swallow. Pulitzer Prize–winner Viet Thanh Nguyen contributes a foreword elucidating Louie's role in shaping contemporary Asian American literature, while an afterword by literary scholar King-Kok Cheung retraces the three phases of Louie's career.

Literature & Fiction

Louie, David Wong

United States

University of Washington Press

A collection of stories--including "Displacement," "Disturbing the Universe," and the title story--explores the themes of cultural legacy, alienation, and dispossession from an Asian-American perspective

Pangs Of Love

KNOPF

The Barbarians Are Coming

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

The author of the awardwinning Pangs of Love returns with a powerful portrait of the ChineseAmerican experience centered on Sterling Lung, a man caught between two worlds. A first novel.

The Barbarians are Coming

Humor & Satire

A Marian Wood Book/Putnam

Winner of the 2000 Book Award in Prose from the Association for American Studies and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for 2002!The award-winning author of Pangs of Love triumphs with "a work that manages to be consistently funny, infinitely sad, and surprisingly exhilarating... truly memorable." (Newsday)

Dramas & Plays

Penguin Publishing Group

Cultures as well as generations clash in the funny and heartbreaking short stories that mark David Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Ploughshares Award, Pangs of Love explores the bizarre contradictions inherent in assimilation.

Pangs of Love: Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

Plume

2000Author: David Wong LouiePublisher: G. P. Putnam &amp; Sons374 pages. Paperback.

Barbarians are Coming

G.P.Putnam's Sons

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Pangs of Love and Other Writings (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Pangs of Love and Other Writings (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Pangs Of Love

The Barbarians Are Coming

The Barbarians are Coming

The Barbarians are Coming

Pangs of Love: Stories (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

Barbarians are Coming