Snow Falling On Cedars - David Guterson

David Guterson

Category: Contemporary

Narrator: George Guidall

Tags: Contemporary

Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospherica masterpiece of suspense which leaves us shaken and changed., Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award 1995 and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can 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 at stake is more than a mans guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberriesmemories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuos 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 neighbors watched. Gri