![]() ![]() ![]() Currently-lives on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound,ĭavid Guterson is the author of a collection of short stories, The Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense Snow Falling on Cedars, which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award, and was an international bestseller and the national bestseller East of the Mountains. ![]() Education-M.A., University of Washington.Snow Falling on Cedars is a beautifully crafted courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, illuminating the psychology of a community, the ambiguities of justice, the racism that persists even between neighbors, and the necessity of individual moral action despite the indifference of nature and circumstance. The trial is haunted by memories of what happened to the Japanese residents during World War II when the entire community was sent into exile. In 1954 a fisherman from San Piedro Island in Puget Sound is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese-American is charged with his murder. ![]()
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