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Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1994 novel by David Guterson. Guterson, a teacher, wrote the book in the early morning hours over ten years, until eventually quitting his job to write full-time, following its success.
Sep 12, 1994 · Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, is based on remote San Pedro Island (fictional) in Puget Sound, Washington State. Kabuyo Miyamoto, an American-Japanese man is accused of murdering a fellow salmon fisherman whose body is found mysteriously tangled up in his fishing net.
Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1999 American legal drama film directed by Scott Hicks, and starring Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, and Sam Shepard.
Jan 7, 2000 · "Snow Falling on Cedars" is a rich, multilayered film about a high school romance and a murder trial a decade later. The young lovers are Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), son of the local newspaper editor in a small Pacific Northwest town, and Hatsue Miyamoto (Youki Kudoh), daughter of Japanese Americans.
Sep 26, 1995 · But since it's set in the 1950s, lingering memories of World War II, internment camps and racism helps fuel suspicion of a Japanese-American fisherman, a lifelong resident of the islands. It's a great story, but the primary pleasure of the book is Guterson's renderings of the people and the place.
Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1994 novel by David Guterson that explores the lingering effects of World War II on a small island community in the Pacific Northwest. The novel opens in 1954, when a local fisherman is found dead in his net.
Sep 12, 1994 · But since it's set in the 1950s, lingering memories of World War II, internment camps and racism helps fuel suspicion of a Japanese-American fisherman, a lifelong resident of the islands. It's a great story, but the primary pleasure of the book is Guterson's renderings of the people and the place.
About Snow Falling on Cedars NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed.
Snow Falling on Cedars. PG-13 Released Sep 12, 1999 2h 6m History Drama List. 39% Tomatometer 92 Reviews 67% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. Fog as thick and palpable as cotton hangs suspended...
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Snow Falling on Cedars is a courtroom drama, a war novel, a love story, and a novel of place all rolled into one. Legitimate provender for the television show Jeopardy !, it also, on occasion, fills out a crossword puzzle, or lends itself to public wordplay.
