Snow Falling on Cedars

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• Snow Falling on Cedars By David Guterson

  David Guterson peers out at Miami's lapis Biscayne Bay as though straining to see something else-an island off Washington's dark Puget Sound, his home and the place of his haunting novel, Snow Falling on Cedars. "I'm not an urban person," he confesse ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Sat, 11 Sep 2010

• Damp Souls

  In the United States, bestselling works of what is now called literary fiction tend to be aggressively regional – think of Jane Smiley’s Iowa, Jane Hamilton’s Midwest or E. Annie Proulx’s Newfoundland. They are literary postcards, nostalgic, often ma ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  1954, San Pedro Island. A Japanese American is charged with the murder of a fellow fisherman. More than a thriller, this book is an afterthought of what happenned to the Japanese American community during WWII. Not an eady reading though.

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  Read this all in a rush: it has great atmosphere and feel-good scenes of country life, with a kind of twist at the end.

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  I don't understand the rave reviews it got. I couldn't get into any of the characters and didn't care for the way the plot was laid with the story being retold and retold again and again each time either totally different or with added information.

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• English Books
• Paperback 480 Pages
• Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed
• ISBN-10: 067976402X
• ISBN-13: 9780679764021
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Sep 26, 1995
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, llibres en català, Libri Italiani, Svenska böcker

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