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Coffee House Press
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
640 pages
ISBN: 1566892392
EAN: 9781566892391
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Fiction
“With humor and bite, [Yamashita] takes on waste, greed,
stupidity, love, environmental and cultural apocalypse and
the problems of migration and belonging—achieving a kind of
cross between Kobo Abe, Gabriel García Márquez and Upton
Sinclair.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of
prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an
epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it
played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Divided into ten
novellas, one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when
Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated,
students took to the streets, the Vietnam War raged, and
cities burned. As Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students, laborers,
artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way
through the history of the day, they become caught in a
riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and
personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to
save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power
Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of
the American experience.
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