Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

by Hisaye Yamamoto

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Nineteen stories spanning Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career cover themes including 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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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
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Introduction
The High-Heeled Shoes, a Memoir
Seventeen Syllables
The Legend of Miss Sasagawara
Wilshire Bus
The Brown House
Yoneko's Earthquake
Morning Rain
Epithalmium
Las Vegas Charley ... (show all)r>Life Among the Oil Fields, a Memoir
The Eskimo Connection
My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali
Underground Lady
A Day in Little Tokyo
Reading and Writing
Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
Death Rides the Rails to Poston
Eucalyptus
A Fire in Fontana
Florentine Gardens

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3575 .A43 .S4Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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