An edition of Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)

Snow Falling on Cedars

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition
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An edition of Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)

Snow Falling on Cedars

First Vintage Contemporaries Edition
  • 3.5 (38 ratings) ·
  • 228 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 41 Have read

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. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken and changed.
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Copyright Date
1995

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3557.U846 S65 1995, PS3557.U846S65 1995

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Paperback

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Open Library
OL26750561M
Internet Archive
snowfallingonced00gute
ISBN 10
067976402X
ISBN 13
9780679764021
LCCN
95011457
OCLC/WorldCat
645863831
Paperback Swap
067976402X
Hathi Trust
003175866
Amazon ID (ASIN)
645863831
Goodreads
44172205

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On San Piedro, an island of rugged, spectacular beauty in Puget Sound, home to salmon fishermen and strawberry farmers, a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial, charged with murder. The year is 1954, and the shadow of World War II, with its brutality abroad and internment of Japanese Americans at home, hangs over the courtroom. Ishmael Cambers, who lost an 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 Ishmael's never-forgotten boyhood love.

Now, as a heavy snowfall impedes the progress of Kabuo Miyamoto's trial, he and others must reckon with the past, with culture, nature, and love, and with the possibilities of the human will. 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 neighbors, and the necessity of individual moral action despite the indifference of nature and circumstance.

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The accused man, Kabu Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table--the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible at his own trial.
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