I Hotel

Name: I Hotel
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
ISBN: 9781461804062

Author: Karen Tei Yamashita

Narrator: Angela Lin, Nancy Wu, Ramón de Ocampo, Jennifer Ikeda, Louis Changchien, James Yaegashi, Ali Ahn

Unabridged: 22 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/24/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and '70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design. "[T]his powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

About Karen Tei Yamashita

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and Letters to Memory. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam

An under read, under appreciated 21st century gem, one that's worth going out of your way to track down. Difficult to explain this book concisely: basically, it's 10 linked novellas centered on the I Hotel in San Francisco that range from 1968-1977 and detail, with excellent historical research, the......more

Goodreads review by Bjorn

Just wow. A huge, sprawling, aimless and yet deadeye story of identity, resistance, success and failure, all that jazz (as in free, as in Rahsaan Roland Kirk's twin saxes blowing different melodies at the same time, as in Miles' electric phase fusing white-boy funk with black panther politics, as in......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

Very impressive indeed - perhaps a point of reference for the style would be somewhere between Venessa Place and Vollmann's non-fiction. Second half better than the first, so I would advise keeping going if you are unsure. Go read the other reviews on here for more of an idea - this book was successf......more