Snow Falling on Cedars

By: David Guterson

It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true cause of the victim's death be discovered?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405882735
• ISBN13: 9781405882736
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Very descriptive, very, very descriptive, and descriptive.

By now, you know I think this book is very descriptive. They say this is very good for a first-timer. Maybe so. However, one trick writers use is to write a full background on each character to keep from having conflicts later and to help with keeping them from looking two-dimensional. Yet, it is not necessary to print the entire bio on someone before he/she even says "Hi." Some description of the environment fills out a picture. Too much description obscures the story like snow falling on cedars. Moreover, is O.K. to throw in a "red herring” now and then, to augment the clues. It is annoying to throw in tons of details that are not relevant to the story. If you like lots of fluff around your mystery and find the fluff more important than who-done-it, then you will like this book.