A powerful story of the choices we must make in a flawed world, by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars

The classic, worldwide bestseller from the author of East of the Mountains. With an introduction by Nicholas Evans

Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true cause of the victim's death be discovered?

The eagerly anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars

A novel written by the author of the bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars .

By the author of Snow Falling On Cedars , this collection of short stories are mainly narrated by older men, recounting the wrong turns and lost opportunities that have occurred in their lives. They remember their mistakes, their lies and their first loves with intense and lingering recollections.

The evocative new novel from the author of the bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars

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Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true cause of the victim's death be discovered?

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II.

A young fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat off an island in the Pacific Northwest. The novel tells of love and war and the ways men and women struggle for survival and redemption.

A sixteen-year-old runaway drug user, who lives in a tent in a forest seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. Is the delusion a result of drug-use or a true calling to God? For logger Tom Cross, the visions offer a last chance for him and his paralysed son,

Adapted from David Guterson's novel, this screenplay tells the story of the death of a fisherman on a Pacific island. The incident turns into a murder trial for a Japanese-American and a test of passions brewed since Pearl Harbour between two heritages claustophobically locked on one dot of land.