Title: Seventeen syllables and other stories
First published: 1988
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Japanese Americans, Social life and customs, Concentration camps, Concentration camp inmates, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Japanese americans, fiction, United states, social life and customs, fiction, Women, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945, Internment camp inmates, Internment camps, Nazi concentration camp inmates, Nazi concentration camps
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945