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...they promised one another to do something about us again. We don't have a clue though because we've got other things to worry about. The sun is still doling out some miserly rays here in town, but up there, above the city, on Mount Igman, the first snow has already fallen...
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...
Destroying a soccer field is not like making snow angels. It is like smashing a golden ring into pieces with a sledge hammer. It is like spitting on a gift and throwing it back at the giver. It is mannerless...
...Books: Snow Falling on Cedars is a luminous first novel...
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...