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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
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ISBN10: 0813529530
ISBN13: 9780813529530
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Apr 1 2001
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780813529530
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Apr 1 2001
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.57 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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
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