Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. Revised and Updated with four new stories.

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.

• | Author: Hisaye Yamamoto
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: May 10, 2001
• | Number of Pages: 178 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813529530
• | ISBN-13: 9780813529530