Most Popular Books by David Guterson

Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America''s agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression. Reapers of the Dust, now reprinted for a new generation of readers, vividly evokes that difficult time. From Hudson''s childhood in North Dakota spring these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days, of continuing battles with hostile elements, and of a family''s new life as migrant workers on the West Coast. While drawn from her own experiences growing up in North Dakota and migrating west during the Dust Bowl Diaspora, these stories are beautifully imagined and exquisitely rendered. Hudson was well ahead of her time in the ways in which she blends reality and imagination and in so doing blurs the boundaries of each in ways that would become common practice among writers in the generations following her. Her characters seem so real precisely because they are so perfectly crafted. Hudson''s experience certainly colors their world and shapes their character but they come fully and vividly alive only through the power of her art.

The Bloomsbury Birthday Quids are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the Bloomsbury Classics. Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the books should become collectors'' items. This title is The Drowned Son by David Guterson.

Snow Falling on Cedars In 1954 a fisherman is found dead and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that more is at stake than one man''s guilt. For San Piedro is haunted by memories- of a past love affair between a white boy and a Japanese girl; of land desired, paid for and lost; and of what happened during World War II when its Japanese residents were sent into exile while their neighbours watched. East of the Mountains When he is diagnosed with cancer, ben Givens leaves his home in Seattle and heads east with his Winchester and hunting dogs in tow. It is to be a final journey to a place of canyons and orchards on the verge of the Columbia River, where he had entered the world and had decided he will now leave it. But what transpires is anything but the journey he anticipates.

Novela ganadora del prestigioso premio PEN/FAULKNER, el DISCOVERY AWARD, y el PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS AWARD. «Tanto en el mundo real como en la ficción, nunca he leído una crónica más absorbente de un litigio.» JOHN GRISHAM «Cautivador...estremecedor. Elegante e impecablemente escrito.» THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Sólo en casos muy excepcionales una primera novela que sorprende y gusta a los críticos más exigentes y recibe un premio tan prestigioso como el PEN/Faulkner pasa a ser, además, una de las obras más vendidas en el mundo. Éste es el caso. Un joven pescador es hallado muerto, atrapado entre las redes de su barco, en las aguas de una pequeña y tranquila isla del Pacífico Norte. La sospecha de asesinato perturbará la calma existente entre los habitantes de la isla, para los que las heridas de Pearl Harbor y la confrontación entre norteamericanos y japoneses en la guerra parecen no haberse cerrado. Kazuo Miyamoto, amigo de la infancia del joven pescador asesinado, es el principal sospechoso. Ishmael Chambers, director del periódico local, se encarga de cubrir el caso y observa cómo el juicio consigue sacar a la luz ciertos acontecimientos ocultos. En este ambiente, Ishmael se reencontrará con Hatsue, su gran amor de adolescencia y esposa del acusado. El juicio y una espiral de acontecimientos despertarán viejos fantasmas y revelarán rencores soterrados. Mientras, la nieve sigue cayendo sobre los cedros y la historia va descubriendo perversas ambigüedades, arreglos de cuentas con el pasado y sentimientos subyacentes, como el racismo, la culpa, la moral individual y el amor. Una novela soberbia y hermosa que sigue sumando, año tras año, miles de lectores.

This novel is about a teenage girl, Ann Holmes, who claims to see the Virgin Mary. A sixteen-year-old runaway, Ann is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of North Fork, Washington, the Virgin comes to her, clear as day. Father Collins--a young priest new to North Fork--finds Ann disturbingly alluring. But it is up to him to evaluate--impartially--the veracity of Ann''s sightings: Are they delusions, or a true calling to God? As word spreads and thousands, including the press, converge upon the town, Carolyn Greer, a smart-talking fellow mushroomer, becomes Ann''s disciple of sorts, as well as her impromptu publicity manager. And Tom Cross, an embittered logger who has been out of work since his son was paralyzed in a terrible accident, finds in Ann''s visions a last chance for redemption for both himself and his son. As Father Collins searches his own soul and Ann''s, as Carolyn struggles with her less than admirable intentions, as Tom alternates between despair and hope, Our Lady of the Forest tells a suspenseful, often wryly humorous, and deeply involving story of faith at a contemporary crossroads.

Een bejaarde hartchirurg met terminale kanker rijdt met zijn jachthonden de Rocky Mountains in om een eind aan zijn leven te maken.

Vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog staat een Amerikaanse visser van Japanse afkomst terecht op beschuldiging van moord waardoor oude wonden openrijten en de haat tegen Japanners opnieuw oplaait.

Comme dans son premier roman, La neige tombait sur les cèdres, best-seller international couronné par le prestigieux Pen Faulkner Award, ces dix nouvelles de David Guterson se déroulent dans les paysages grandioses du nord-ouest des Etats-Unis. Relation très étroite à la nature, apprentissage de la vie comme de la mort, solitude et partage, espoir et désillusion, quête d''initiation, quelle que soit la voie qu''ils choisissent, les héros de ces nouvelles devront apprendre à composer avec le monde, mais aussi et d''abord avec eux-mêmes. Partis chasser le canard sauvage ou pêcher la truite argentée, ils feront d''autres découvertes : le déclin de leurs ardeurs juvéniles, la cruauté gratuite des étrangers, l''apprentissage de la souffrance et de la déception. Le clair-obscur qui enveloppe les récits, la nostalgie qui les habite, le sentiment d''un vide que seul pourrait remplir l''humanisme généreux d''un monde oublié ou perdu, l''écriture nerveuse, sans artifice, retenue, qui va à l''essentiel, sont autant d''éléments qui évoquent certains grands devanciers comme Hemingway et qui font de Guterson un auteur puissant et rare.