by Hisaye Yamamoto
contributions by King-Kok Cheung
Rutgers University Press, 1998
eISBN: 978-0-8135-5857-8 | Paper: 978-0-8135-2607-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3575.A43S4 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.