Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: David Guterson
• Title: Snow Falling On Cedars
• Publisher: ‎ Harcourt Brace & Company; First Edition (September 12, 1994)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 345 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0151001006
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0151001002
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.4 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.3 x 9.25 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom 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

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.

About the Author:

David Guterson is the author of 12 books, including the novel Snow Falling on Cedars, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and of the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award.

His writing has been celebrated for its atmospheric intensity, narrative drive, and probing exploration of fundamental human themes–love, death, meaning, and morality among them. Guterson's body of work includes six novels, two story collections, two works of non-fiction, and two books of poetry.

He was born in Washington State and still lives there.