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.Tags
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- Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
- Related movies
- American Playhouse: Hot Summer Winds (1991 | IMDb)
- Disambiguation notice
- 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
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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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