A "finely wrought, flawlessly written" novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is "at various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war chronicle" (San Francisco Chronicle). "Guterson has fashioned something haunting and true" (Pico Iyer, Time). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. A fall 1999 major motion picture.
- ISBN10 0151004439
- ISBN13 9780151004430
- Publish Date 3 November 1999 (first published 1 September 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 July 2021
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English