Snow Falling on Cedars

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Summary: Is Kabuo really the killer??
Review: David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars was perhaps the most appealing novel I have read. Throughout the book, Guterson intertwines love and romance in with World War II. Snow Falling on Cedars begins by Kabuo Miyamoto being placed on trial for the murder of Carl Heine. Carl was found lying dead in his gill net the morning of September 15. The novel has frequent flashbacks of Hatsue, a Japanese woman, as she was in her youth. She and Ishmeal Chambers had a childhood romance. Often, the two would spend their time together in a hollow cedar tree. There they could get away from the world and be content holding each other. During the trial, Hatsue and her husband, Kabuo, work through this. This novel also approaches the subject of racism. This is not your everyday novel, in that reading this, you have to focus on what is being said. Some events are very subtle, and you have to read between the lines. Although this novel may have been to follow at times, it was very well written.