Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. Revised and Updated with four new stories.
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Author(s)Hisaye Yamamoto
PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN / ASIN0813529530
ISBN-139780813529530
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Sales Rank911,348
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together nineteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.
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