David Guterson

In a novel of personal discovery set against the backdrop of the Columbia Basin of central Washington, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, suffering from terminal colon cancer, embarks on one final hunting odyssey through the American West. By the author of Snow Falling on Cedars. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

East of the Mountains

A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Abeba, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of human emotion. How does it feel to be a child taken into a family that doesn't share her background, her religion, or the color of her skin? What does it mean to be a mother on trial for murder? And why would a lawyer choose to defend such a woman? Royal is a criminal attorney in his eighties, and this is his final case. His son, our narrator, drives Royal every day from his office to the town where the tragedy took place, and observes the trial as it unfolds. The consequences will reach beyond what he could have anticipated. Bracing, astute, and intensely imagined, The Final Case is a tightrope walk of a novel, a deeply affecting work of fiction that dares to confront life's most irreconcilable moral quandaries. It will make an indelible impression on every reader.

The Final Case

Examines the pros and cons of educating children at home, and makes concrete suggestions for cooperation between families and schools

Why Homeschooling Makes Sense

Family Matters

San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense-- one that leaves us shaken and changed. Haunting. A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper.

Snow Falling on Cedars

Two boys from profoundly different backgrounds--John William Barry, the wealthy scion of two elite Seattle families, and the blue-collar Irish Neil Countryman--brought together by their fierce love of the natural world, grow up to pursue vastly different paths in life, Neil as a devoted schoolteacher, and John William, a recluse seeking refuge in the wilderness. 150,000 first printing.

The Other

From the best selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: the story of a teenage girl who sees a vision of hope in the heart of the forest. A timely warning on the dangers of religious zealotry and fanaticism, reminiscent of The Crucible

Our Lady of the Forest

Left on a doorstep after his illegal au pair mother exacts a brutal revenge on his father, Edward is raised by an adoring family and grows up to become a famous billionaire Internet tycoon who hurtles toward a fate that he is powerless to control. 75,000 first printing.

A Novel

Ed King

Ploughshares Winter 2008-2009 Guest-Edited by Jean Valentine

In a stunning novel of personal discovery set against the backdrop of the Columbia Basin of central Washington, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens, suffering from terminal colon cancer, embarks on one final, epic hunting odyssey through the American West. Reprint.

From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a poignant, searching memoir about one man's fall into depression in the wake of a national tragedy, and his brave struggle to return to normalcy. Like most of the country and the world, David Guterson woke up on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, not thinking history was about to change. He was in Washington, D.C., with a group of fellow writers, evaluating grant applications for the National Endowment of the Arts. But before their work day had even begun, the Pentagon was bombed; the Twin Towers were down in New York City; and havoc was wreaked irrevocably on our collective sense of happiness, security, and national pride. Scrambling to get out of the city and back home any way he could, David, along with two fellow writers, rented a car and drove 2,600 miles across the country to Seattle. But the attacks triggered something inside him, a pervasive feeling of hopelessness, fear, despair--a clinical depression that that would not go away. He lost interest in his work, family, friends--his life. Inspired by William Styron's masterful Darkness Visible, Guterson's Descent is the searing account of one man's envelopment by the darkest of human emotions, and his tunneling out. Powerful, intense, and deeply felt, it is at once personal and universally illuminating--a confession from a great literary mind who takes us on a journey of what it feels like, and means, to lose one's grasp on the world--and to find it once more, even if by fumbling in the dark.

A Memoir of Madness

Descent

Most outdoor enthusiasts understand the phrase "turn around time" as that point in an adventure when one must cease heading out in order to have enough time to safely return to camp or home. In that vein, an award-winning novelist explores midlife through a lyrical journey along a trail.

A Walking Poem for the Pacific Northwest

Turn Around Time

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.

David Guterson Omnibus

«Guterson ha creado una obra honesta, sencilla y diestra, llena de la inmediata belleza de la vida cotidiana y de la desolación de tener que dejarla atrás.» The Washington Times «Sabio y compasivo con los apuros humanos, en esta segunda novela Guterson confirma su talento como escritor que hurga en las complejidades morales de la vida para alcanzar verdades existenciales.»Publishers Weekly «Hablando claro, Guterson es un escritor diestro y hábil, con un don inmenso. Y los diversos impulsos que le llevaron a escribir esta novela son admirables y valientes.»The Wall Street Journal «Los numerosos admiradores de su anterior novela Mientras nieva sobre los cedros no quedarán decepcionados con este relato conmovedor y soberbiamente lírico del viaje de caza final de un anciano... A lo largo de toda la obra resuenan los ecos del gran cuento de Faulkner "El oso" e incluso de "La muerte de Iván Ilich" de Tolstoi.»Kirkus Reviews Tras haber enviudado recientemente y enfermo terminal, el doctor Givens decide plantarle cara a su destino y sufrir lo menos posible. Para ello, prepara una excursión de caza cuya auténtica finalidad será morir donde quiere y sin molestar a su familia. Pero la coartada acaba transformándose en un inesperado viaje a través del mítico oeste norteamericano en su viejo coche.Pues mientras que, como cirujano cardiovascular, su principal preocupación solía ser la planificación, ahora no ha tenido en cuenta la capacidad de persuasión de la memoria, y la promesa que le hizo a su esposa Rachel, el amor de su vida, vuelve recurrentemente. Al este de las montañas es una poderosa y hermosa novela de descubrimiento personal, llena de humanidad, pasión y honestidad. Una novela que se pregunta cómo enfrentarse a lo desconocido cuando se sabe todo, cómo tratar de comprender cuando casi nada tiene ya sentido. Traducción de Marcelo Covián Fasce

Al este de las montañas

Moneyball

From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. John William Barry has inherited the pedigree—and wealth—of two of Seattle’s elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish. Nevertheless, when the two boys meet in 1972 at age sixteen, they’re brought together by what they have in common: a fierce intensity and a love of the outdoors that takes them, together and often, into Washington’s remote backcountry, where they must rely on their wits—and each other—to survive. Soon after graduating from college, Neil sets out on a path that will lead him toward a life as a devoted schoolteacher and family man. But John William makes a radically different choice, dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods, convinced that it is the only way to live without hypocrisy. When John William enlists Neil to help him disappear completely, Neil finds himself drawn into a web of secrets and often agonizing responsibility, deceit, and tragedy—one that will finally break open with a wholly unexpected, life-altering revelation. Riveting, deeply humane, The Other is David Guterson’s most brilliant and provocative novel to date.

A neve caindo sobre os cedros

La neve cade sui cedri

Snow Falling on Cedars, Reading Group Guide

Der krebskranke Arzt Ben Givers aus Seattle fährt in die Wälder des östlichen Washington an der Pazifikküste, um seinem Leben ein Ende zu setzen. Ein Verkehrsunfall mit Folgen durchkreuzt sein Vorhaben.

Roman

Östlich der Berge

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.

David Guterson

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