Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel | David Guterson

Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel | David Guterson | Magnificent

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Snow Falling on Ce...

	Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel David Guterson Vintage, 1995 - 460 pages average customer review:based on 700 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Flawless, Timeless and Moving

It combines racism, tradition, pride, glory, love, hate and justice. This novel sheds light on a small experience in such a colossal war. One can only comprehend the many tragedies of World War II through this in-shoes, personal level.

Reading this novel will give you insight on your own cons: racism, hate, injustice and prejudice.

It conveys the lack of appreciation one may have for their life... but the utmost gratitude that comes when love is introduced, as "first love never dies", if your first love is dead you may have nothing to appreciate.

I do not want to spoil this read for anyone; Snow Falling on Cedars is a riveting work that deserves your attention.

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Magnificent

A beautifully written tale about love, justice, racism, war, tradition and legacy. Guterson weaves history and geography with human fate and out comes a story that could only be told under those particular circumstances.
An excellent book.

well-written, poetic

Sensitive and well-written story that grips the reader. The descriptive passages and the character development are splendid. This novel works on so many levels: love story, mystery, courtroom drama, history. The book has a poetic feel that charms the reader.

Suspenseful and descriptive novel

During the time of Japanese Internment and WWII Japanese settlers strive to live in dignity, finding comfort relying on their old Japanese traditions and customs which ultimately left one white man who courted a Japanese woman broken hearted and another white man who tried to sell and enter into a contract a piece of land to Japanese in a mysterious demise whose trial is the focus of the novel. In the end though truth, heroism and rule of law prevailed over racism and jealousy.

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Exposing the Human Condition

At its bare bones level, the literary genre here is a murder mystery in which the reader learns of events essentially through witness testimony as it is given in a courtroom trial. And this aspect of the story is quite good and well-crafted, in and by itself. But at a deeper level, the backdrop of time and place reveals the deeply ingrained prejudices and suspicions that Americans felt and directed against Japanese-Americans who were living in the American northwest in the WWII years following Pearl Harbor. Very effectively and in a non-judgmental way, the author spotlights this chapter in America's history when completely innocent Japanese-Americans were forced from their homes, uprooted from occupations and earning capabilities, experienced painful alienation in relationships within their communities and ultimately were interned in camps until war's end. Woven throughout, the human condition of bigotry is nakedly exposed but thankfully so are honor, grace and integrity.

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