Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War I, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken and changed. Haunting. A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper.--Los Angeles Times Compelling.heartstopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written.--The New York Times Book ReviewDavid Guterson is the author of five novels: Snow Falling on Cedars, which won the PEN/Faulkner and American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Awards; East of the Mountains; Our Lady of the Forest, which was named a New York TimesNotable Book and a Los Angeles Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year; The Other; and Ed King. He's also the author of two nonfiction books, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense and Descent: A Memoir of Madness, as well as a prior story collection, The Land Ahead of Us, the Country Behind; a poetry collection, Songs for a Summons; and a poetry collection, Songs for a Summons. He lives in Washington State and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780151001002 |
| ISBN 10 | 0151001006 |
| Title | Snow Falling on Cedars |
| Author | David Guterson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harcourt Brace International |
| Year published | 1994-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1996, Winner of Discover Great New Writers (Fiction) 1994, Commended for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult) 1995 |
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