Seventeen syllables and other stories
by Hisaye Yamamoto · 1988
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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.
FictionJapanese AmericansSocial life and customsConcentration campsConcentration camp inmatesEvacuation and relocation, 1942-1945Japanese americans, fictionUnited states, social life and customs, fictionWomenForced removal and internment, 1942-1945Internment camp inmatesInternment camps