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Seventeen syllables and other stories

Name: Seventeen syllables and other stories
Author: Hisaye Yamamoto

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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: Social life and customs
Women
Concentration camps
United states, social life and customs
Japanese Americans
Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Set in: United States
Time: 20th Century; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

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