Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories |
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| Author:
| Yamamoto, Hisaye |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-2607-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1998 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.