Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories - Paperback

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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories - Paperback

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories - Paperback

by Hisaye Yamamoto
$42.57
$42.57

Book Overview

by Hisaye Yamamoto (Author), King-Kok Cheung (Introduction by)

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.

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

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 178
Dimensions: 0.51 x 8.5 x 5.57 IN
Publication Date: April 01, 2001
ISBN9780813529530
Author Hisaye Yamamoto
PublisherRutgers University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2001
LanguageENG- English
Pages178
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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