description: A Japanese-American fisherman is charged with murder, and around his trial comes a haunting fugue of memory, including the childhood romance between a white boy and a Japanese girl, a land dispute, and wartime interment.
language: English
title: Snow Falling on Cedars
titlecomplete: Snow Falling on Cedars
characters: Ishmael Chambers, Kabuo Miyamoto, Carl Heine, Hatsue Miyamoto
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Mystery, Romance
ratings_count: 184249
places: Washington (state), San Piedro Island, Washington, Pacific Northwest
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: American Booksellers Book Of The Year  Award
category: Adult Trade, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Martin Beck Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Barnes & Noble Discover Prize
publisher: Random House