An edition of Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)

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An edition of Snow Falling on Cedars (1994)

Snow Falling on Cedars

  • 3.5 (38 ratings) ·
  • 233 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 41 Have read

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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雪落香杉树
2017-06, Writers Publishing House
paperback in Chinese
Cover of: snow falling on cedars
snow falling on cedars
Jul 06, 2009, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
paperback in English
Cover of: Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
October 21, 1999, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Paperback - Film Tie-in Export Ed edition
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Schnee, der auf Zedern fällt: Roman
1998-02, btb
Taschenbuch in German - 7. Auflage
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1996, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - Lrg Print edition
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Snow falling on cedars
1996, Bloomsbury
in English
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1995-10, Vintage Contemporaries
in English
Cover of: Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
1995 10, Vintage Contemporaries
Paperback in English - First Vintage Contemporaries Edition
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Snow Falling on Cedars
1995 10, Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage
Paperback in English - 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
Cover of: Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
1994, Harcourt Brace & Company
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
1994, Harcourt Brace & Company
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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OL44487446M
Internet Archive
snowfallingonced0000gute_k7e1
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067976402X

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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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