How long does it take to read Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories?
Hisaye Yamamoto
Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Hisaye Yamamoto takes about 2 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 27 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 134 pages, about 36,850 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the 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: Fiction, Japanese Americans, Social life and customs, Concentration camps, Concentration camp inmates, Japanese americans, fiction
