![]() War intervened to upset the deal and undermine trust between different groups of island residents, including not only people of Japanese descent (including Miyamoto) and of German descent (including Heine) but practically everyone else as well. The deal dates back to the time just before Pearl Harbor, when Issei had been forbidden from owning property. The defendant, Kabuo Miyamoto, stands accused of killing Carl Heine because of a real-estate deal gone awry. The plot unfolds as a mystery in a 1954 courtroom murder trial on “San Piedro Island” in Puget Sound. ![]() Snow Falling on Cedars revolves in large part around the treatment of people of Japanese descent in the Pacific Northwest during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedarsīy the 1990s, a half a century after World War II, what happened in the wartime American West to people of Japanese descent had become so well known that it played a central role in the appeal of the best-selling first novel by David Guterson. ![]()
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