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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Author: Hisaye Yamamato, Hisaye Yamamoto
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 intern...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813526072
ISBN-10: 0813526078
Pages: 134
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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"Winner of the 1986 American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation. Fifteen Short Stories that span the author's career. " This is a book of short-stories, not poetry. The daily life of a Japanese American woman in and out of internment camps in America.


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