Snow Falling On Cedars

Author: David Guterson

Stock information

General Fields

  • : $12.00 AUD
  • : 9780747522669
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • : 0.303
  • : April 1995
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 25mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 24.99
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  • : October 2023
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  • : books

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  • : David Guterson
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  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
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  • : en
  • : 813.54
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  • : 416
  • : Modern fiction
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Barcode 9780747522669
9780747522669

Local Description

Bloomsbury, 1995. A paperback copy in very good condition.

Description

A young fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat off an island in the Pacific Northwest. The novel tells of love and war and the ways men and women struggle for survival and redemption. A Japanese-American is charged with murder. San Piedro Island in Puget Sound is a place so isolated that anyone who lives there can't 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 uncovered is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries -- memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and a 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 neighbours watched.

Promotion info

Over 1 million copies sold