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.
- ISBN13 9780813526072
- Publish Date 1 October 1998 (first published 1 September 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rutgers University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 150
- Language English