Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0747522669 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Rianonne of Wien Bezirk 22 - Donaustadt, Wien Austria on 7/28/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by Rianonne from Wien Bezirk 22 - Donaustadt, Wien Austria on Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Old passions, prejudices, and grudges surface in a Washington State island town when a Japanese man stands trial for the murder of a fisherman in the 1950s. Guterson (The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind, 1989, etc.) has written a thoughtful, poetic first novel, a cleverly constructed courtroom drama with detailed, compelling characters. Many years earlier, Kabuo Miyamoto's family had made all but the last payment on seven acres of land they were in the process of buying from the Heine family. Then the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and Kabuo's family was interned. Etta Heine, Carl's mother, called off the deal. Kabuo served in the war, returned, and wanted his land back. After changing hands a few times, the land ended up with Carl Heine. When Carl, a fisherman, is found drowned in his own net, all the circumstantial evidence, with the land dispute as a possible motive, points to Kabuo as the murderer. Meanwhile, Hatsue Miyamoto, Kabuo's wife, is the undying passion of Ishmael Chambers, the publisher and editor of the town newspaper. Ishmael, who returned from the war minus an arm, can't shake his obsession for Hatsue any more than he can ignore the ghost pains in his nonexistent arm. As a thick snowstorm whirls outside the courtroom, the story is unburied.

Journal Entry 2 by Rianonne at Café der Provinz in Wien Bezirk 08 - Josefstadt, Wien Austria on Friday, November 17, 2006

Released 17 yrs ago (11/17/2006 UTC) at Café der Provinz in Wien Bezirk 08 - Josefstadt, Wien Austria

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Journal Entry 3 by SabinaLorenz from Wien Bezirk 19 - Döbling, Wien Austria on Sunday, November 19, 2006
bei der Ladies Night mitgenommen

Journal Entry 4 by SabinaLorenz from Wien Bezirk 19 - Döbling, Wien Austria on Friday, December 14, 2007
Somehow I am not drawn into the book - I consider it boring and way too long... I plan to release it somewhere internationally

Journal Entry 5 by SabinaLorenz at De Groote Societeit in Maastricht, Limburg Netherlands on Monday, February 18, 2008

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