Pangs of love and other writings / David Wong Louie ; foreword by Viet Thanh Nguyen ; afterword by King-Kok Cheung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louie, David Wong, 1954-2018, author.

Contributor:

Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971- writer of foreword.

Cheung, King-Kok, 1954- writer of foreword.

Series:

Classics of Asian American Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans--Fiction.

Asian Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Pangs of Love, originally published in 1991, was the debut work of David Wong Louie, one of the most influential voices in contemporary Asian American literature. This collection of short stories centers around characters who are in conflict with their place in the world, often feeling disconnected from both American society and their own families. Yet the stories transcend the simplistic narrative of Asian American struggles with alienation in a foreign land, and the depth of the characters highlights how their experiences of love and envy and loneliness and loss and duty are universal, informed by their heritage but not confined by it. This expanded edition includes an additional short story, a haunting autobiographical essay, an afterword by King-Kok Cheung, and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Birthday

Displacement

Bottles of beaujolais

Social science

Pangs of love

Love on the rocks

The movers

Man's hysteria: real and imaginedin the twentieth century

Warming trends

Disturbing the universe

Inheritance

Cold hearted

Eat, memory.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295745404

0295745401

OCLC:

1336934392