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Snow Falling on Cedars

Author:
David Guterson
Read by:
George Guidall

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26
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5
Release Date
September 18, 2017
Duration
15 hours 44 minutes
Summary
As a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder on an island in Puget Sound, snow blankets the countryside. The whiteness covers the courthouse, but it cannot conceal the memories at work inside: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, an unrequited love, and the ghosts of racism that still haunt the islanders. First novels rarely attract as much attention as Snow Falling on Cedars. Remaining on bestseller lists for months, it has cast a spell on readers across the country.
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Linda M.

I didn't read this book when it was first published but remember that it was received with great acclaim by both critics and readers. I found that the positive reception which this book received was well-founded. The author is one of the first to bring up the situation of Japanese Americans being interred in concentration camps that I know of although there has been a lot more discussion of it recently. However, this story is not only a story about internment camps for the Japanese during World War II, but is a story about island people (off the coast of Washington state), about their way of life, and the changes that war brought to all of them - whether they served in the War or not. All of these topics mill around the central theme of man's innate capacity to be afraid of those whom they do not know, or who they assume is a threat to them. A sad story but one which ultimately is uplifting. It is sensitively told in everyday language. A bonus for this audio is that its narrator is the great George Guidall - one of the best readers of audio books, recognized by his peers as being such. It's worth looking him up in the NYT to find out more about him.

Snow Falling on Cedars

Snow Falling on Cedars

Author: David Guterson
Read by: George Guidall
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