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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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Dear John letters, internment camps, strawberries, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, attack on Pearl Harbor, fishermen, anti-Japanese sentiments, U.S. Marine Corps, Battle of Tarawa, Modern & contemporary fiction, murder trials, legal stories, Japanese Americans, Japanese Americans in fiction, award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Trials (Murder), PEN/Faulkner Award Winner, Journalists in fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, award:pen_faulkner_award=1995, Journalists, Fiction, Trials (Homicide), Japaner, 20th century, American literature, Fictional Works, University of South Alabama, Deutscher Einwanderer, Mord, Washington (state), fiction, Journalists, fiction, Japanese americans, fiction, Fiction, legal, Large type books, French language, Trials (Murder.), Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages, Trials, united states, Toxic torts, Groundwater, pollution, Fiction, general, Fiction, short stories (single author), Japanese americans--washington (state)--fiction, Trials (murder)--washington (state)--fiction, Journalists--washington (state)--fiction, Japanese americans--fiction, Trials (murder)--fiction, Journalists--fiction, --fictional works, Ps3557.u846 s65 1995, 813/.54People
Ishmael Cambers, Hatsue Miyamoto, Kabuo Miyamoto, Etta Heine, Art Moran, Alvin Hooks, Carl Heine Sr., Carl Heine Jr.Places
Washington (State), San Piedro, Washington, Puget Sound, Tarawa, Horace Whaley, Ole Jurgensen, Manzanar, California, Point White lighthouse stationTimes
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Snow Falling on Cedars: Bloomsbury Modern Classics
Sep 21, 2017, Bloomsbury Paperbacks
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Jul 06, 2009, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Snow Falling on Cedars: 21 Great Bloomsbury Reads for the 21st Century
2007, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Mientras Nieva Sobre Los Cedros/Snow Falling on Cedars
January 1, 2002, TusQuets
Paperback
in English
- Tra edition
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Mientras Nieva Sobre Los Cedros
January 2002, Tusquets
Paperback
in Spanish
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Mientras Nieva Sobre Los Cedros (Fabula)
June 2001, Tusquets
Hardcover
in Spanish
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Snow Falling on Cedars
April 2001, Books on Tape
Audio Cassette
in English
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Snow Falling on Cedars
October 21, 1999, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Paperback
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Snow Falling on Cedars
September 1999, Perfection Learning Prebound
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Nov 15, 1998, Vintage Books, Brand: Vintage Books
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Schnee, der auf Zedern fällt: Roman
1998-02, btb
Taschenbuch
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1996, Thorndike Press
Hardcover
in English
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1996, Borders and Recorded Books Unabridged, Borders and Recorded Books Una
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1995 10, Vintage Contemporaries
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1995 10, Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage
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Snow falling on cedars
1994, Harcourt Brace
Large Print
in English
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1994, Harcourt Brace & Company
Hardcover
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1994, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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1994, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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