Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Yamamoto, Hisaye

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813529530)

Vendor: Hisaye Yamamoto
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$35.95
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Yamamoto, Hisaye

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

$35.95
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Yamamoto, Hisaye

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

$35.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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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: Hisaye Yamamoto
ISBN-10: 0813529530
ISBN-13: 9780813529530
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2001
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.57w x 0.51d
By Hisaye Yamamoto
By Hisaye Yamamoto
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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.

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