{"product_id":"seventeen-syllables-and-other-stories-9780813529530","title":"Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNineteen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese remarkable stories are written with the proportion and craft of the mastersùthere are hints of Chekhov, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Mansfield, and Grace Paley. . . . Each of the fifteen short stories, written with the economy of haiku, is a treasure. * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eThe writing of history and the telling of stories are in our time very different. But these stories about the daily lives of Japanese American women in and out of the World War II internment camps of the United States are history and herstory. The women are gutsy or fragileùthat is, like any of us would be caught in exile while at home. The stories are beautifully written so we feel them even more deeply. * Grace Paley *\u003cbr\u003eYou can imagine my delight to learn that a collection of her work is now finally seeing the light of day. How good that feels. At last more people will be touched by the grace that flows through Hisaye YamamotoÆs pen. The world will be a better place because of it. * Joy Kogawa *\u003cbr\u003eReading Hisaye Yamamoto's Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories is like sitting down and having a good talk with someone who really remembers, someone who will open a door to her feelings and thoughts about what it has meant to be Japanese American during the last 40 years. . . . Seventeen Syllables is an excellent resource, one that keeps getting better with time. * International Examiner: The Pacific Reader *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir 1\u003cbr\u003e Seventeen Syllables 8\u003cbr\u003e The Legend of Miss Sasagawara 20\u003cbr\u003e Wilshire Bus 34\u003cbr\u003e The Brown House 39\u003cbr\u003e Yoneko's Earthquake 46\u003cbr\u003e Morning Rain 57\u003cbr\u003e Epithalamium 60\u003cbr\u003e Las Vegas Charley 70\u003cbr\u003e Life Among the Oil Fields, A Memoir 86\u003cbr\u003e The Eskimo Connection 96\u003cbr\u003e My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali 105\u003cbr\u003e Underground Lady 109\u003cbr\u003e A Day in Little Tokyo 114\u003cbr\u003e Reading and Writing 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition 129\u003cbr\u003e Death Rides the Rails to Poston 131\u003cbr\u003e Eucalyptus 142\u003cbr\u003e A Fire in Fontana 150\u003cbr\u003e Florentine Gardens 158\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 173\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768151867735,"sku":"9780813529530","price":22.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813529530.jpg?v=1758716579","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seventeen-syllables-and-other-stories-9780813529530","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}