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Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
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Snow Falling on Cedars

By David Guterson

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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award ▪ American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award
"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

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.

"Compelling...heart-stopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written."—New York Times Book Review

Editor's Note

Award winner…

This PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel is set in the decade following World War II and poignantly grapples with the repercussions of Japanese internment in the United States.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMariner Books
Release dateSep 12, 1994
ISBN9780547545080
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