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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
Author: Hisaye Yamamoto, King-Kok Cheung
Classic short stories by a survivor of the US World War II concentration camps for 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.
ISBN-13: 9780813529530
ISBN-10: 0813529530
Publication Date: 5/10/2001
Pages: 178
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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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