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The novel concerns the trial of a Japanese-American man accused of killing a white fisherman and explores the racial tensions that simmer under the surface of the outwardly peaceful, even sleepy, island.
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Fighting the distrust and prejudice of his neighbors on a remote island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American man who spent time in an internment camp during World War II, finds himself on trial for murder. The histories of the accused and the victim, both fishermen and residents of the small town of San Piedro, unfold as newspaperman Ishmael Chambers embarks on a quest for the truth. Lonely and war-scarred, Chambers strives for justice and inner strength, while coming to terms with his ill-fated love for Hatsue Miyamoto, the wife of the accused. Evocative and beautifully written, Snow Falling on Cedars won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award.
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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 II, 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.
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Condition: Bueno. : En la isla de San Piedro, un lugar de espectacular belleza en Puget Sound, un pescador japonés-americano es juzgado por asesinato. Es 1954, y la sombra de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con su brutalidad en el extranjero y el internamiento de los japoneses-americanos en casa, se cierne sobre la sala del tribunal. Ishmael Chambers, quien perdió un brazo en la guerra del Pacífico y ahora dirige el periódico de la isla heredado de su padre, está entre los periodistas que cubren el juicio, un juicio que lo acerca, una vez más, a Hatsue Miyamoto, la esposa del acusado y el amor de infancia nunca olvidado de Ishmael. Ahora, mientras una fuerte nevada dificulta el progreso del juicio de Kabuo Miyamoto, él y otros deben enfrentarse al pasado, con la cultura, la naturaleza y el amor, y con las posibilidades de la voluntad humana. Tanto suspense como bellamente elaborado, Snow Falling on Cedars retrata la psicología de una comunidad, las ambigüedades de la justicia, el racismo que persiste incluso entre vecinos y la necesidad de una acción moral individual a pesar de la indiferencia de la naturaleza y las circunstancias. EAN: 9780375704376 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Snow Falling on Cedars Autor: David Guterson Idioma: en Páginas: 460 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2025-12-05-121f4df6
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