Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

by Hisaye Yamamoto

1998

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Tags

PS3575.A43S4 1999

Genres

Publication

Rutgers University Press

DDC/MDS

813.54

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

ISBN

0913175145 / 9780913175149

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