Karen Tei Yamashita

• Jul-1990
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Yamashita “blends the . . . surrealism of Garcia Marquez, bizarre science fiction . . . à la Stanislaw Lem, and a gift for satirizing . . . that recalls Heller of Catch-22” (Publishers Weekly). This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre...

• Sep-1993
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An “immensely entertaining” historical novel about Japanese immigrants and their struggle to make a home in a Brazilian rainforest (Newsday). In 1925, a band of Japanese immigrants arrive in Brazil to carve a utopia out of the jungle. Yamashita...

• Sep-1997
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“David Foster Wallace meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez” in this novel set in a dystopian Los Angeles from a National Book Award finalist (Publishers Weekly). Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orang...

• Apr-2001
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"Yamashita is so tuned into now, she can see tomorrow."--"Booklist" on "Tropic of Orange," starred review

""Through the Arc of the Rainforest" progresses toward an apocalyptic resolution that spreads out like a Bosch triptych reproduced by Gau...

• Jun-2010
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2010 National Book Award Finalist2010-2011 Asian/Pacific American Library Association (APALA) Book Award Winner in Adult Fiction2010 California Book Award WinnerDazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graph...

• Apr-2011
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Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a burlesque of comic-strip adventures and apocalyptic portents that stretches familiar truths to their logical extreme in a future world that is just recognizable enough to be frightening. In the Author's Note," ...

• Feb-2014
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"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 provo...

• May-2014
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The first of ten novellas in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco’s Asian-American community through the civil rights era. Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco’s ...

• May-2014
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The seventh novella in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco’s Asian-American community through the civil rights era.  Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco�...

• May-2020
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In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance -- familial, cultural, emotional, artistic -- really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characte...