Hisaye Yamamoto

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories

Sprecher: Hiroto, Allison

• MP3-CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brilliance Audio
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 540 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798400111266
• Artikelnr.: 65832738

Autorenporträt

HISAYE YAMAMOTO received the 1986 American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation. Seventeen Syllables received the 1988 Award for Literature from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction ix
The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir 1
Seventeen Syllables 8
The Legend of Miss Sasagawara 20
Wilshire Bus 34
The Brown House 39
Yoneko's Earthquake 46
Morning Rain 57
Epithalamium 60
Las Vegas Charley 70
Life Among the Oil Fields, A Memoir 86
The Eskimo Connection 96
My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali 105
Underground Lady 109
A Day in Little Tokyo 114
Reading and Writing 122
Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition 129
Death Rides the Rails to Poston 131
Eucalyptus 142
A Fire in Fontana 150
Florentine Gardens 158
Selected Bibliography 173