I Hotel
- ISBN-10
- 1566892392
- ISBN-13
- 9781566892391
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 613
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- Karen Tei Yamashita
Description
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 andpersonal turmoil that culminate in their effort to save the International Hotel--epicenter of the Yellow Power Movement.
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