David Guterson

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...

From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—an emotionally charged, provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary. Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a...

A crystalline short novel about defying expectations, hitting the road, and seeking the right way to live. Radically open-minded, formidably strong, and unusually clear-eyed about herself and others, Evelyn Bednarz has always been a misfit. She’s easily bored, unsuited to life at school, asks...

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...

Seattle 1962: Walter, wunschlos unglücklich in seiner Ehe, schwängert das Au Pair seiner Kinder und löst damit eine Tragödie aus, die nicht nur sein Leben unwiderruflich zeichnet...

Seattle 1972: Bei einem 800-Meter-Lauf treffen sich Neil und John William zum ersten Mal, zwei Teenager aus ganz unterschiedlichen Familien, und es beginnt eine außerordentliche Freundschaft. Während Neil eine Universitätskarriere anstrebt, schlägt der sensible und hochintelligente John...

A sweeping, propulsive, darkly humorous new novel by the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a story of destiny, desire, and destruction that reimagines Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for our own era. In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary—“a guy who weighs risk...