Snow Falling on Cedars
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
Beautiful & haunting.
Reminds me of the sign & mural (by artist Aki Sogabe) at the Pike Place Market in Seattle:
In 1941 approximately two-thirds
of the farmer's stalls in the
Pike Place Market were occupied
by Japanese Americans.
Today none.
Editorial Review from Amazon.com
This is the kind of book where you can smell and hear and see the fictional world the writer has created, so palpably does the atmosphere come through. Set on an island in the straits north of Puget Sound, in Washington, where everyone is either a fisherman or a berry farmer, the story is nominally about a murder trial. 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.
Other copies on my BookCrossing shelf:
6624193 • 8497881(audiocassettes) • 9822774 (CDs) • 15044112
Reminds me of the sign & mural (by artist Aki Sogabe) at the Pike Place Market in Seattle:
of the farmer's stalls in the
Pike Place Market were occupied
by Japanese Americans.
Today none.
Editorial Review from Amazon.com
This is the kind of book where you can smell and hear and see the fictional world the writer has created, so palpably does the atmosphere come through. Set on an island in the straits north of Puget Sound, in Washington, where everyone is either a fisherman or a berry farmer, the story is nominally about a murder trial. 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.
Other copies on my BookCrossing shelf:
Released 16 yrs ago (3/29/2008 UTC) at Safeway - Kapahulu in Honolulu, Hawaii USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
RELEASE NOTES:
Outside near one of the tables.
Outside near one of the tables.
