Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award, Snow Falling on Cedars is a fascinating story. One of David Guterson’s mobiles for writing the book was the inspiration he found in the place where he now resides, Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound, located near Seattle, Guterson’s birthplace. Bainbridge Island is a very similar place to the one that comes to be the setting of his novel, Washington’s San Piedro Island. Another one of the aspects that probably influenced the story a great deal is the author’s dad-a criminal defense lawyer- because the novel is based on a trial. The accused is Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese man convicted of murdering his fellow fisherman, Caucasian Carl Heine. In thi
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