num_pages: 160
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.
language: English
title: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
titlecomplete: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Cultural, American, Short Stories, Japan, School, Literature, Japanese Literature, Read For School, Short Story Collection
ratings_count: 517
publisher: Rutgers University Press