Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel (Pen/Faulkner Award)

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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: David Guterson
Published: 09/26/1995
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679764021
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 1.02″ H x 8.16″ L x 5.05″ W

Award: 1995 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award Winner – Regional Book
Award: 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award Winner – Fiction

About the Author
DAVID GUTERSON is the author of several novels: the national best seller Snow Falling on Cedars; East of the Mountains; Our Lady of the Forest, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; The Other; and Ed King. He is also the author of two story collections, two books of poetry, a memoir, and the work of nonfiction Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Washington state.