Best Selling Books by David Guterson

A powerful tale of the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s, reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird. Courtroom drama, love story, and war novel, this is the epic tale of a young Japanese-American and the man on trial for killing the man she loves.

A powerful story of the choices we must make in a flawed world, by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars ''Remarkable ... a highly significant contribution to American literature'' Giles Foden ''Guterson''s books keep getting better ... A moving portrait of male friendship'' New York Times ''Powerfully wrought ... Guterson writes beautiful, persuasive prose, harking back to Hemingway'' Telegraph Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow older Neil follows the conventional route of the American dream, but the eccentric, fiercely intelligent John William makes radically different choices, dropping out of college and moving deep into the woods. Convinced it is the only way to live without hypocrisy, John William enlists Neil to help him disappear completely, drawing his oldest friend into a web of secrets and agonising responsibility, deceit and tragedy - one that will finally break open with an unexpected, life-altering revelation.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes an emotionally charged, provocative novel about what happens when a fifteen-year-old pill-popping runaway receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary. • "Surely one of this year’s best novels.”—The Plain Dealer Ann Holmes is a fragile teenaged runaway who receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary one morning while picking mushrooms in the woods of North Fork, Washington. In the ensuing days the miracle recurs, and the declining logging town becomes the site of a pilgrimage of the faithful and desperate. As these people flock to Ann—and as Ann herself is drawn more deeply into what is either holiness or madness—Our Lady of the Forest—seamlessly splices the miraculous and the mundane.

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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes ”a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about a dying man’s final journey through the American West. When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit back and wait. Instead he takes his two beloved dogs and goes on a last hunt, determined to end his life on his own terms. But as the people he meets and the memories over which he lingers remind him of the mystery of life’s endurance, his trek into the American West becomes much more than a final journey.

From the award-winning, bestselling 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. "Ultimately, the mystery at the center of The Final Case is not about innocence or guilt, but about how one family’s profound attachments can stand alongside breathtaking cruelty in another.” —Scott Turow, The New York Times Book Review A girl dies one late, rainy night a few feet from the back door of her home. The girl, Abeba, was born in Ethiopia. Her adoptive parents, Delvin and Betsy Harvey—conservative, white fundamentalist Christians—are charged with her murder. Royal, a Seattle criminal attorney in the last days of his long career, takes Betsy Harvey’s case. An octogenarian without a driver’s license, he leans on his son—the novel’s narrator—as he prepares for trial. So begins The Final Case, a bracing, astute, and deeply affecting examination of justice and injustice—and familial love. David Guterson’s first courtroom drama since Snow Falling on Cedars, it is his most compelling and heartfelt novel to date.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes a modern re-imagining of one of the world’s greatest tragedies, Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex—a story of destiny, desire, and destruction. • “Brilliant.... Transcendently dark and dazzling.” —The Seattle Times In Seattle of 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary takes a risk of his own and makes the biggest error of his life: He sleeps with Diane Burroughs, the sexy, not-quite-legal British au pair who’s taking care of his children for the summer. When Diane becomes pregnant and leaves their baby on a doorstep, it sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. The orphaned child, adopted by an adoring family and named Edward Aaron King, grows up to become a billionaire Internet tycoon and an international celebrity—the “King of Search”—who unknowingly, but inexorably, hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no way of reversing.

A piercing collection of short stories set in the Pacific Northwest from the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning writer of Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson''s beautifully observed and emotionally sharp short stories are set largely in the Pacific Northwest, an area he knew very well. In these vast landscapes, hunting, fishing, and sports are the givens of men''s lives, but so too are regrets, wrong turns, lost opportunities, and quiet reflections. They remember their mistakes, their lies and their first loves with intense and lingering recollections. With prose that stings like the scent of gunpowder, this is a collection of great power.

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—an extraordinary collection of short stories spanning across America, Nepal, South Africa, and Germany that explores the mysteries of love and our complex desire for connection. “First-rate.... Humorous, ironic, and satiric.... Each story is realistic, bordering on surrealistic.” —The Boston Globe These stories showcase Guterson’s gifts for psychological nuance, emotional suspense, and evocation of the natural world. In these pages, we meet, among others, a lonely landlord trying to reach out to his tenants; a middle-aged widower looking for love online; an American Jew traveling to Berlin to confront his haunted past. Celebrating the surprises that lurk within the dramas of our daily lives, Problems with People marks the return of a contemporary American master to the form that launched his literary career.

An honest, perceptive discussion of children, education, and our common life as a nation by the bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars. A high school English teacher, Guterson and his wife educate their own children at home. “A literate primer for anyone who wants to know more about alternatives to the schools” (Kirkus Reviews). Index.

Written well into mid-life, Songs for a Summons are explorations and observations of a writing life.

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.

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.

Simplified Chinese Edition of Snow Falling on Cedars

A crystalline short novel about defying expectations, hitting the road, and seeking the right way to live.

«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

En japansk-amerikaner er anklaget for mord i et lille øsamfund ud for Seattle, og mens nævningesagen løber, fortælles om sagens hovedpersoner og lokalsamfundets sammenvævede skæbner i krigs- og efterkrigsårene

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.

Ann Holmes parece uma candidata improvável para uma aparição. Uma jovem fugitiva de 16 anos, dedica-se a apanhar cogumelos e vive numa tenda na floresta. Mas, numa tarde de Novembro, nas nublosas florestas de North Fork, Washington, a Virgem Maria aparece-lhe. O jovem padre Collins considera Ann profundamente perturbadora, mas caber-lhe-á a ele avaliar a veracidade das suas visões; serão estas apenas ilusões de óptica ou o verdadeiro chamamento de Deus? Enquanto a palavra se espalha milhares de pessoas, incluindo a imprensa convergem para a cidade , Carolyn Greer, uma amiga de Ann, transforma-se numa discípula, bem como na sua relações públicas. E Tom Cross, um lenhador amargurado, desempregado desde que o seu filho ficou paralisado num terrível acidente, encontra nas visões de Ann a última hipótese de redenção tanto para ele como para o seu filho.