Unclibrariesdonation Edition 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. Some content may be lost due to the binding of the book.Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:23:36 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA161413 Boxid_2 BWB220140827 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense- one that leaves us shaken and changed. 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. 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. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. 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.

Snow on cedars by david guterson