Karen Tei Yamashita
All Books By Karen Tei Yamashita
I Hotel
- By: Karen Tei Yamashita
- Narrator: Karen Tei Yamashita
- Length: 22 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 24, 2011
- Language: English
-
3.87(620 ratings)
Karen Tei Yamashita has been honored with the American Book Award and Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. A stunning portrait of Asian Americans in 1960s and ’70s San Francisco, I Hotel is a remarkable collection of 10 related novellas. Touching on such topics as Japanese internment camps and the Marcos dictatorship, the book presents readers with characters of rich design. “[T]his powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative and overwhelming in every sense.”-Publishers Weekly, starred review
... Read moreSansei and Sensibility
- By: Karen Tei Yamashita
- Length: 8 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: December 21, 2021
- Language: English
-
3.5(304 ratings)
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, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives’ freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community’s gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of LA, bake sales replace ballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with humor.
... Read moreTropic of Orange
- By: Karen Tei Yamashita
- Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: June 28, 2019
- Language: English
-
3.56(2613 ratings)
Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway. Hemmed in by wildfires, it’s a symphony conducted from an overpass, grandiose, comic, and as diverse as the city itself-from an author who has received the California Book Award and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award, among other literary honors.
... Read more