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.Author: David GutersonPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 09/26/1995Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.16h x 5.05w x 1.02dISBN: 9780679764021Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 7Point Value: 23Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 28547 / Snow Falling on CedarsAward: Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award - WinnerAward: PEN/Faulkner Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): New York Times 11/05/1995 pg. 36New York Times 12/03/1995 pg. 88NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1995 pg. 88Publishers Weekly 09/04/1995About the AuthorDAVID 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.
