Status
Available
Genres
Publication
Kitchen Table/Women of Color (1988), Edition: First Edition, 134 pages
Description
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.
Subjects
Awards
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
134 p.; 5.5 x 0.75 inches
ISBN
0913175145 / 9780913175149
Local notes
fiction
Other editions
Seventeen syllables and other stories by Hisaye Yamamoto (Paper Book)