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I Hotel : [a novel] / Karen Tei Yamashita.
Van Pelt Library PS3575.A44 I19 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civil rights movements--United States--Fiction.
- Civil rights movements.
- Asian Americans--Fiction.
- Asian Americans.
- United States.
- Nineteen seventies--Fiction.
- Nineteen seventies.
- Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
- Nineteen sixties.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Fiction.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- California--San Francisco--Chinatown.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 613 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- Beginning in 1968, a motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs from San Francisco's Chinatown make their way through the history of the day, becoming caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil that culminate in their effort to save the International Hotel--epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement.
- Contents:
- 1968 : eye hotel
- 1969 : I spy hotel
- 1970 : "I" hotel
- 1971 : aiiieeeee! hotel
- 1972 : inter-national hotel
- 1973 : int'l hotel
- 1974 : I-migrant hotel
- 1975 : internationale hotel
- 1976 : ai hotel
- 1977 : I-hotel.
- Notes:
- National Book Award Finalist for Fiction, 2010.
- Asian American Studies Book Award--Poetry/Prose, 2012.
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Adult Fiction , Winner, 2010-2011
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781566892391
- 1566892392
- OCLC:
- 456178254
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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