The book Snow Falling on Cedars is a story about a Japanese-American fisherman named Kabuo Miyamoto who is accused of murdering a well-known local fisherman, Carl Heine, he is outcast because he is Japanese and the trial takes place right before the anniversary of the Japanese bombings in Hawaii. Everyone on the island has an anti- ... through betrayal and hatred. The local sheriff, Art Moran, does not even suspect foul play until Horace Whaley, the coroner, says that the wound on Carl Heine's head reminds him of wounds he saw in WWII, when soldiers got into hand-to-hand combat with Japanese ...

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