Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

by Hisaye Yamamoto

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Nineteen stories spanning Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career cover themes including 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.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Hisaye Yamamoto	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Cheung, King-Kok	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Seventeen Syllables: 5 Stories of Japanese American Life by Hisaye Yamamoto

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Introduction
The High-Heeled Shoes, a Memoir
Seventeen Syllables
The Legend of Miss Sasagawara
Wilshire Bus
The Brown House
Yoneko's Earthquake
Morning Rain
Epithalmium
Las Vegas Charley
Life Among the Oil Fields, a Memoir
The Eskimo Connection
My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali
Underground Lady
A Day in Little Tokyo
Reading and Writing
Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
Death Rides the Rails to Poston
Eucalyptus
A Fire in Fontana
Florentine Gardens

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Nineteen stories spanning Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career cover themes including 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.

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