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      Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

      by Hisaye Yamamoto
      Published
      Sep 1988
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      134
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      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 internment of Japanese Americans.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      First Edition Sep 1988 Kitchen Table/Women of Color Pr ISBN13 9780913175149 ISBN10 0913175145
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      Oct 1998 Rutgers University Press ISBN13 9780813526072 ISBN10 0813526078
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