Seventeen syllables and other stories

Hisaye Yamamoto First published 1988

About this book

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

concentration camp inmates
concentration camps
evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
fiction
forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
internment camp inmates
internment camps
japanese americans
japanese americans, fiction
nazi concentration camp inmates
nazi concentration camps
social life and customs
united states, social life and customs, fiction
women