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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen 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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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories now brings together nineteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. 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.
In addition to the contents of the original volume, this edition brings back into print the following works:
Death Rides the Rails to Poston Eucalyptus A Fire in Fontana Florentine Gardens
About the Author
Hisaye Yamamoto received the 1986 American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation. Seventeen Syllables received the 1988 Award for Literature from the Association for Asian American Studies.
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- PublisherKitchen Table/Women of Color Pr
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0913175145
- ISBN 13 9780913175149
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages134
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