num_pages: 10
description: Heavy snow falls on San Piedro and impedes the progress of Kabuo Miyomoto's trial. Hatsue, Kabuo's wife and Ishmael, a journalist on the case, find themselves reckoning with the past and their lost love.
language: English
title: Snow Falling on Cedars
titlecomplete: Snow Falling on Cedars
characters: Ishmael Chambers, Hatsue Miyamoto, Carl Heine, Kabuo Miyamoto
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 184268
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: Chivers Audio Books