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22 produkter
I Hotel
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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An epic journey through one of America’s most transformative decades via the stories of the activists, laborers, and students who shaped it.Dazzling and ambitious, this multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as …
Questions 27 & 28
E-bok, 2026
313 kr
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In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. To be considered for release, they …
Daughter of the Samurai
Av Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, Karen Tei Yamashita
Häftad, 2021
165 kr
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I Hotel
E-bok, 2019
328 kr
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Dazzling and ambitious, this multivoiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco near the end of the 1960s. As Karen Tei Yamashita’s motley cast of students, laborers, artists, …
1970: "e;I"e; Hotel
E-bok, 2014
61 kr
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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 provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, …
1968: Eye Hotel
A Novella
E-bok, 2014
58 kr
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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 Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita’s …
1974: I-Migrant
A Novella
E-bok, 2014
60 kr
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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’s Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita’s epic are …
Brazil-Maru
Häftad, 2017, 15+ år
191 kr
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"Immensely entertaining." Newsday"Poignant and remarkable." Philadelphia Inquirer"Warm, compassionate, engaging, and thought-provoking." Washington Post"With a subtle ominousness, Yamashita sets up her hopeful, prideful charactersand, in the process, the entire genre of pioneer litfor a fall." …
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Häftad, 2017, 15+ år
191 kr
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A freewheeling black comedy bound up in cultural confusion, political insanity, and environmental catastrophe.A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American ceo with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe rise …
Tropic of Orange
Häftad, 2017
277 kr
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An apocalypse of race, class, and culture fanned by the media and the harsh L.A. sun.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 …
Letters to Memory
E-bok, 2017
252 kr
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An excursion through the Japanese-American internment using archival materials from the author’s own family. In this unique memoir, Karen Tei Yamashita draws on her family’s history and creates a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic …
Tropic of Orange
E-bok, 2017
241 kr
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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 Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, …
Brazil-Maru
E-bok, 2017
246 kr
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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 conjures “an intricate and fascinating epoch” (San …
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
E-bok, 2017
246 kr
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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 cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a …
Sansei and Sensibility
Häftad, 2020
191 kr
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Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen’s characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an …
Sansei and Sensibility
E-bok, 2020
193 kr
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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, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives'' …
Dark Soil
Av Angie Sijun Lou, Karen Tei Yamashita
Häftad, 2024
271 kr
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Eight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small.Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction to animate the secrets of Santa Cruz, the city she’s called home for …
Dark Soil
Av Karen Tei Yamashita, Angie Sijun Lou
E-bok, 2024
396 kr
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Eight authors’ works of personal nonfiction join with ten stories by Karen Tei Yamashita to illuminate the hidden histories of places large and small. Faced with a scant historical record, Karen Tei Yamashita turns to fiction to animate the secrets of Santa Cruz, the city she’s called home for …
Questions 27 & 28
Inbunden, 2026
387 kr
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In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorising the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast and corral them into inland concentration camps. To be considered for release, they …
Anime Wong
Fictions of Performance
Häftad, 2014
210 kr
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Anime Wong is a memory book of performances, most of which were produced collaboratively, reflecting questions of gender, identity, Orientalism, and racial politics. Yamashita's theatrical work is fiction interpreted by the body in real time; these kinetic encounters, complete with giant …
Letters to Memory
Häftad, 2017
190 kr
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Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." New York Times Book ReviewWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." …
