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Author
Publication
1988 - Kitchen Table--Women of Color Press, Latham, NY, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
33,500 words, Guess
Page Count
134 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1907663M
- ISBN-100913175145
- OCLC Control Number18792679
- OCLC Control Numberseventeensyllabl00yama
- Library of Congress Control Number90112075
and 2 more
- Goodreads975401
- LibraryThing304958
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3575.A43 S4 1988
Description
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.
Description
"Brings together for the first time fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career"--
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- Fiction.
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