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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

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by Hisaye Yamamoto
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Availability:In StockContributor:Hisaye Yamamoto, King-Kok Cheung (Introduction by)Publish date:2001-04-01Pages:178
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813529530ISBN-10:813529530UPC:9780813529530Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.50 x 5.57 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCZWZQY39T
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
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813529530ISBN-10:813529530UPC:9780813529530Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Cultural Heritage, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.50 x 5.57 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCZWZQY39T
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.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Edition

Revised and Exp Edition

Contributor(s)

Hisaye Yamamoto, King-Kok Cheung (Introduction by)

Author

Hisaye Yamamoto

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