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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1990
  • Latest Book:
    May 2020
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Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • “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...



  • "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...



  • 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...



  • 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," ...



  • "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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...






  • 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...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Karen Tei Yamashita has published 10 books.

Karen Tei Yamashita does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Sansei and Sensibility, was published in May 2020.

The first book by Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, was published in July 1990.

No. Karen Tei Yamashita does not write books in series.