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Snow falling on cedars : a novel
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- ISBN: 067976402X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 067976402X
- ISBN: 9780679764021
- ISBN: 9780151001002 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0151001006 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
xiii, 460 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
print - Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
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| General Note: | PenFaulkner Award winner. |
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| Subject: | Washington (State) -- Fiction American literature -- 20th century Trials (Murder) -- Fiction Japanese Americans -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. Legal stories. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC GUTE (Text) | 30886000579140 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Ishmael Chambers, a newspaperman from the Pacific Northwest who lost an arm in World War II, reunites with his childhood sweetheart, Hatsue Imada, whom he was separated from by the Japanese-American internment, when Imada's husband is tried for murder. - Baker & Taylor
In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese-American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's boyhood sweetheart - Blackwell North Amer
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 coldblooded 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 Chambers, 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 Miyomoto, the wife of the accused man and Ishmael's never-forgotten boyhood love.
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. Now, as a heavy snowfall surrounds and impedes the progress of Kabuo Miyomoto'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 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. - Harcourt PublishingA âfinely wrought, flawlessly writtenâ novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is âat various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war chronicleâ (San Francisco Chronicle). âGuterson has fashioned something haunting and trueâ (Pico Iyer, Time). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. A fall 1999 major motion picture.
- HoughtonA “finely wrought, flawlessly written” novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is “at various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war chronicle” (San Francisco Chronicle). “Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true” (Pico Iyer, Time). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. A fall 1999 major motion picture.
- HoughtonA 'finely wrought, flawlessly written' novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is 'at various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war chronicle' (San Francisco Chronicle). "Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true' (Pico Iyer, Time). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. A fall 1999 major motion picture.
