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Snow falling on cedars

Author: David Guterson
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Vintage contemporaries edView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Legal stories
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Guterson, David.
Snow falling on cedars.
New York : Vintage Books, 1995
(OCoLC)645863831
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Guterson
ISBN: 067976402X 9780679764021
OCLC Number: 32167372
Description: xiii, 460 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: David Guterson.
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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 II, 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.

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This beautifully written novel takes place on an island in the straits north of Puget Sound in the 1950’s. Memories of internment camps and World War II, fuel the accusation of a Japanese-American fisherman suspected of killing a former high school classmate. Ishmael Chambers, the local newspaper’s only...
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