Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

by King-KokCheung (Introduction), HisayeYamamoto (Author), Hisaye Yamamoto (Author), King-Kok Cheung (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $22.70

  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.