Snow falling on cedars
(Book)

"(1999) - Scott Hicks w. Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Max Von Sydow" -from Collector's description.,NNCU-C

Read by Peter Marinker.

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. Haunting. A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper.

The Gerald Peary Collection consists of approximately 4,000 fiction and non-fiction books on which feature films were based and represents over thirty years of research and collecting. Collector/scholar Gerald Peary taught film studies for thirty-five years at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. The author of nine books and writer-director of three feature documentaries, he served on film festival juries around the world and wrote on film for many publications including The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Toronto Globe and Mail, and The Los Angeles Times.,NNCU-C

Pen/Faulkner Award, 1995.

American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, 1996.