Snow Falling on Cedars
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David Guterson
He saw the soft cedars of San Piedro Island, its high, rolling hills, the low mist that lay in long streamers against its beaches, the whitecaps riffling its shoreline. The moon had risen already behind the island – a quarter moon, pale and indefinite, as ethereal and translucent as the wisps of cloud that travelled the skies.A fisherman is found dead in the net of his boat off the coast of a North American island. When a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memories grow as thickly as cedar trees – memories of a charmed romance between a white boy and a Japanese girl. Above all, the island is haunted by what happened to its Japanese residents during the Second World War, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched.
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More Details:
Author
David Guterson
Pages
432
Publisher
A&C Black
Published Date
2009-08-17
ISBN
1408806762 9781408806760
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"09 A banned book"
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Giuliana B.
"So I know this book took me forever to read, but this book is S L O W. It's pretty painful how slow it is. I got frustrated. <br/><br/>I had my reasons for not liking this book. First off, it goes into the characters' earlier lives a little too much. Overall, the whole chapters on their earlier lives were not significant to the story as a whole. I get that it's vital to have character development, but there was too much of it. <br/><br/>Overall, this book is about a murder that happened on a boat. There are A LOT of scenes from the trial, and the way it was put together was super boring, I had to take breaks. <br/><br/>I gave it 2 stars because I kinda liked the story but I didn't at the same time. This was not a book that I would want to read all day."
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tactical_booknerd
"Set in the Pacific Northwest during WWII, do you ever stop loving your first love? How do you correct a wrong done to your neighbors and friends?"
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Shannon McManus
"1/2/21"
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Sarah Caldwell
"I actually am not too familiar with this author, however the book was good! Id like to check out other novels by him. I happened to find this book in a thrift store-lucky find!(:"
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Hailee Lynn
"Definitely "
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Cynthia Tisdale