num_pages: 345
description: On a spectacularly beautiful island in Puget Sound, a Japanese-American veteran of World War 2 stands trial in 1954 for murdering a fisherman. The trial is much more than a big story for Ishmael Chambers, who lost an arm in the Pacific War and now runs the islands newspaper. He sill cares deeply for Hatsue Miyamoto, wife of the accused man and Ishmael’s never-to-be-forgotten boyhood 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: 184259
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: NY: Harcourt Brace, 94