In 1999 it was then adapted into a movie which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Snow Falling on Cedars won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1995.
Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.” For on San Pedro, memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo’s wife memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man’s guilt. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. “Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric-a masterpiece of suspense San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies.
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