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Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense- one that leaves us shaken and changed. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award Haunting.A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering a.

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. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspenseone that leaves us shaken and changed.

Hardly a moment passes when were not conscious of the movies messages about tolerance and forgiveness being shoved in our faces. Hicks and Ron Bass) that too often substitutes distilled, poeticized oration for everyday speech. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. And 'Snow Falling on Cedars,' like many an elegant coffee-table book, has a skimpy text (by Mr. San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a. Both suspenseful and beautifully crafted, Snow Falling on Cedars portrays the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, the racism that persists even between neighbours, and the necessity of individual moral action despite the indifference of nature and circumstance.Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award 1995 and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award American Booksellers Association Book of the. Now, as a heavy snowfall surrounds and impedes the progress of Kabuo Miyamoto's trial, they and the other participants must come to a reckoning with the past, with culture, nature, and love, and with the possibilities of human will. Hatsue and Ishmael, in the years before the war came between them, had dug clams together, picked strawberries in San Piedro's verdant fields, and passed long hours in the secrecy of a giant hollow cedar tree. Ishmael Chambers, who lost as arm in the Pacific War and now runs the island newspaper inherited from his father, is among the journalists covering the trial-a trial that brings him close, once again, to Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused man and Ishamel's never-forgotten boyhood love.

It is 1954, and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and internment of Japanese Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom. On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with cold-blooded murder.