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I Hotel

Karen Tei Yamashita

Paperback | Pages: 613 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 495 Users | 106 Reviews

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Original Title:	I Hotel
ISBN:	1566892392 (ISBN13: 9781566892391)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	American Book Award (2011), California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2010), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2010), Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2010)

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A multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy that 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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Title	:	I Hotel
Author	:	Karen Tei Yamashita
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 613 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2010 by Coffee House Press
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literary Fiction. Short Stories. Contemporary. Literature. American. Novels

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Ratings: 3.79 From 495 Users | 106 Reviews

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Lu Hsun gives up medicine. What's the point? He could study all he wanted to make his people healthy in body, but they were sick in their minds, dig. Now this might seem like a jump, but Lu Hsun thinks the answer is literature. So he starts a new life writing. I know of the 'People's History of the United States' but what about the 'Non-White People's History of the United States'? Something huge and intricately spun and developed on a scale to put Gibbon to shame, something which may already

As a matter of principle, I avoid hotels, in any form, at all costs. But I Hotel, like the ones in Vegas, I just couldnt seem to resist.The publishers refer to Karen Tei Yamashitas I Hotel as This dazzling, multi-voiced fusion of fiction, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy [that:] spins an epic taleOn other matters of principle, I am always cautious when the word epic gets thrown around like blame after an oil spill. But flipping through its pages, I Hotel does appear to have graphic and

This historical novel consists of ten linked novellas about radical political figures and artists involved in the Asian American movement in San Francisco. That makes it sound much drier and more technical than it is. I was drawn in and absorbed by the stories, some of which were familiar and some very unfamiliar. I recognized all the references to Maxine Hong Kingston and to some of the labor leaders, but other things were completely outside the narrative I had learned about US history. I

The International Hotel (I-Hotel) was built a year after the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake in Manilatown, a community of some 20,000 Filipino immigrants on the edge of Chinatown. It was a residential hotel, which mainly housed Filipino and Chinese immigrant bachelors who worked in nearby businesses but couldn't afford homes, along with a smattering of artists and community and political activists that moved there in the 1960s. The I-Hotel sat in the shadow of the Financial District's

This is not easy reading but it was 100% worth the effort. There were so many voices in this unique novel, it gave it prismatic effect, each beam is its own and each trails off sometimes forever and sometimes to rejoin the others later. It's so fractured, even in form: playwriting, graphic novel, etc all within various novellas that alone are one thing but together paint an entire canvass. So what is it about? Revolution, art, history, culture, immigration, San Francisco, the Yellow Power

from Rain Taxi via Powell's:Huge, messy, and frantically fun, I Hotel offers a very believable panorama of life at this time. It's apparent that Yamashita did an incredible amount of research for the book. The portraits of these early generation Asian Americans, some of whom were or knew people who had been imprisoned in internment camps, denied a humane wage, got fucked with by the cops and the government, fought losing battles for citizenship, and lived in deplorable conditions, are quite

I hate leaving books but I don't want to torture myself. This is one of those novels whose "experimental" (artificial) structure seems like it was created for academic purposes. I would recommend this for people who study creative writing, people who are extremely interested in the mid-20th century, or people who really like modern art. I am none of these so I am returning it to the library.