Snow Falling on Cedars
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0151004439
ISBN 13
9780151004430
Category
813 Fiction
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
345
Subject
Japanese Americans -- Fiction. Trials (Murder) -- Fiction. Japanese Americans.
Abstract
In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese-American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's boyhood sweetheart.
Description
Publisher Comments
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder. Set in 1954 in the shadow of World War II, Snow Falling on Cedars is a beautifully crafted courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, illuminating the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, the racism that persists even between neighbors, and the necessity of individual moral action despite the indifference of nature and circumstance.
Review
"Compelling . . . heart-stopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written."-the New York Times Book Review "
Luminous . . . a beautifully assured and full-bodied novel [that] becomes a tender examination of fairness and forgiveness . . . Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true."-Time
"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
On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder. Set in 1954 in the shadow of World War II, Snow Falling on Cedars is a beautifully crafted courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, illuminating the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, the racism that persists even between neighbors, and the necessity of individual moral action despite the indifference of nature and circumstance.
Review
"Compelling . . . heart-stopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written."-the New York Times Book Review "
Luminous . . . a beautifully assured and full-bodied novel [that] becomes a tender examination of fairness and forgiveness . . . Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true."-Time
"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
Biblio Notes
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Guterson
ISBN: 0151004439 : HRD 9780151004430 : HRD
OCLC Number: 861746340
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: 1990.
Description: 345 pages cm
Responsibility: David Guterson.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David Guterson
ISBN: 0151004439 : HRD 9780151004430 : HRD
OCLC Number: 861746340
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: 1990.
Description: 345 pages cm
Responsibility: David Guterson.
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