Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0151001006 Global Overview for this book
Registered by top-tappser of Lake Tapps, Washington USA on 8/25/2007
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3 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by top-tappser from Lake Tapps, Washington USA on Saturday, August 25, 2007
A local author. He is a beautiful wordsmith. You can picture the lush landscape we are lucky to live in. A great first novel. I am hoping for more from him.

Journal Entry 2 by top-tappser from Lake Tapps, Washington USA on Monday, September 17, 2007
Mailed to New York in a trade today.

Journal Entry 3 by MarysGirl from Brooklyn, New York USA on Friday, September 21, 2007
Arrived yesterday. I'm looking forward to reading it. Sorry for the delay in getting Bridget out to you. Put it in the mail today. Thanks for sharing!

Journal Entry 4 by MarysGirl from Brooklyn, New York USA on Saturday, December 29, 2007
Very much enjoyed this novel. The writing is beautiful and story compelling as Guterson uses a murder trial held during a snow storm in 1954 as a touch stone to tell his story. A young fisherman is drowned off an island in the Pacific Northwest - maybe murdered by a Japanese-American fisherman to settle an old score over land. Guterson uses the trial to delve into the lives of the community trying to recover from the trauma of WWII. Veterans returned from war, Japanese families returned from internment camps. The community struggles with its prejudice and human failings. Guterson jumps back in forth in time following the lives of several islanders as they grow up and grow apart; providing concise and insightful descriptions of all the characters - major and minor - as well as the lush landscape in which they live.

Highly recommend.

Journal Entry 5 by MarysGirl from Brooklyn, New York USA on Monday, June 30, 2008
This sat in my husband's Mt. TBR for 7 months, so I'm moving it on in a controlled release to my sister hopiej.

Journal Entry 6 by hopiej from Cool, California USA on Saturday, July 26, 2008
I very much enjoyed this book, Mr. Guterson's vivid descriptions puts you there with the fellow islanders!

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