Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What kind of mentality produces this sort of statement, that any new community good must be earmarked for inevitable destruction? Is it the same mentality that drives a child to come crashing into a field of newly-fallen snow, to be the first to make his mark on something pristine? If it is, the mentality is mistaken...
...Books: Snow Falling on Cedars is a luminous first novel...
...Snow Falling on Cedars (Harcourt Brace; 345 pages; $21.95), a beautifully assured and full-bodied story, centers on a trial: when the bloody corpse of Carl Heine, a large, well-meaning salmon fisherman, is pulled out of the water one day, suspicion immediately falls on Heine's old friend and recent adversary, Kabuo Miyomoto, a Japanese colleague who has been bidding for some of Heine's property. As Miyomoto sits in the snowbound courtroom, he is watched by his elegant wife Hatsue; she, in turn, is watched by Ishmael Chambers, a young reporter who has been in love with...
Toward the end, Guterson describes a lighthouse room that "smelled of salt water and snow and of the past," and that is very much the aroma of his richly atmospheric novel. Though movie ready in its pacing and narrative vividness, it is also unusually lived in, focused and compassionate. As its title suggests, Snow Falling on Cedars is poised at precisely that point where an elliptical Japanese delicacy meets the woody, unmoving fiber of the Pacific Northwest. Out of that encounter, Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true...
...could be snow...