1970: "I" Hotel
- ISBN-10
- 1566893690
- ISBN-13
- 9781566893695
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 44
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-02-15
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Author
- Karen Tei Yamashita
Description
"I Hotel" is the third novella of I Hotel, a National Book Award finalist and epic of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Yamashita’s cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, caught in riptides of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil.
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