![]() ![]() Chambers is torn between his hatred for the Japanese and his love for Kabuo’s wife, Hatsue. Ishmael Chambers, who runs the San Piedro Review, is a World War II veteran of the US Marine Corps, and lost an arm fighting against the Japanese at the Battle of Tarawa. The editor of the town’s one-man newspaper is covering the case. The trial is being held in December of that year, during a fearful snow storm that holds the entire island in its throes. His watch is water damaged, and stopped at 1:47. Carl’s body is being pulled out of the sea, having been trapped in his own net. The novel is set in the period just after World War II, at a time when anti-Japanese sentiments were widespread. They live in a close-knit community, and much of the story is told through a series of flashbacks, explaining who these characters are and their relationship to one another. The year is 1954, and Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese-American fisherman, has been accused of murdering a fellow fisherman, the well liked and respected Carl Heine. The novel takes place on the fictional island of San Piedro, in the northern region of Washington State. It was adapted into a film that was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999. The novel became an instant bestseller, and won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. When the novel became successful, he quit his job to write full-time. Guterson wrote the book over a period of ten years, while working as a teacher. ![]() Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1994 novel by American writer David Guterson. ![]()
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