Snow Falling on Cedars | Techniques
Guterson is a remarkable writer. Few other authors, for instance, understand and use parallelisms as well as he does. He has a visiting crime reporter note that "[T]he sight of Hatsue's face in profile elicited in him the smell of pine needles strewn in the courtyard outside the tearoom." He writes very lyric and elegant prose; settings, for instance, are laden with sensual details and very specific word choices.
In the blue light of dusk he'd made the turn out of the harbor and run for open water. From his vantage point at the wheel of the Islander he saw the soft...
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