

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award
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 man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the 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 I, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken and changed. Haunting. A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper.--Los Angeles Times Compelling.heartstopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written.--The New York Times Book ReviewIt takes about 9 Hours and 44 minutes on average for a reader to read Snow Falling on Cedars. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute.
The Lexile score for Snow Falling on Cedars is 1080.
Snow Falling on Cedars is 460 pages long.
Snow Falling on Cedars won the following awards:
in 1995 Snow Falling on Cedars won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award in category .
in 1995 Snow Falling on Cedars won the PEN/Faulkner Award in category .
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