Snow falling on cedars
Title:
Snow falling on cedars
Author:
Tribble, Chris.
ISBN:
9780582419285
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Publication Information:
Harlow : Pearson Education, 1999.
Physical Description:
vii, 113 p. ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin readers. Level 6
Series Title:
Penguin readers. Level 6
General Note:
Originally published: Harlow : Longman, 1997.
Contents:
The trial begins -- The discovery -- The defence -- Ishmael Chambers -- After a death -- Japanese Americans -- The beach and the woods -- Etta Heine -- Transactions -- Kabuo Miyamoto -- Lies -- Pearl Harbour -- The prison camp -- Tarawa -- Suspicion and arrest -- Blood tests and murder weapons -- The wife of the deceased -- Out in the snow -- Ishmael's mother -- Hatsue Miyamoto's story -- Kabuo Miyamoto's story -- The end of the trial -- After the storm -- Ishmael's decicions-- The real story.
Abstract:
It is 1954 and Kabuo Myiamoto 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?
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