East of the Mountains

Description: From the author of "Snow Falling on Cedars" comes this bestselling novel about a dying man's final journey through a landscape that has always sustained him and provided him with hope and challenges.

Review Quotes: "A compassionate and masterful achievement." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"In describing the world of a dying man, Guterson invokes the ultimate book of suffering-then, to his great credit, offers it here as a consolation rather than despair." -The Boston Sunday Globe

"The writing is wonderful throughout, the characters are vivid...heartfelt, engaging and well drawn." --The Miami Herald

"Profound and ambitious. . . . Guterson depicts . . . moral and spiritual struggle with a clear-eyed intensity and intelligence that gives East of the Mountains its essential authority." --Chicago Tribune

"The shape is elegant, the tone is perfectly controlled, almost cool, and Guterson's prose shines with [a] taut polish. . . .[He] is a craftsman with a sense of literary history, one of the most serious and accomplished young American writers." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Guterson possesses a remarkable gift for capturing people and places, etching them into the reader's mind." --USA Today

"This book would be a challenge to praise too highly. It resounds with clarity. It feels like home." -The San Diego Union-Tribune

"[Guterson] has produced a clean, unpretentious and expert piece of work, filled with the immediate beauty of everyday life and the desolation of leaving it behind." --The Washington Times

"Wonderfully written, tender toward its characters, and full of incident and insight." -Men's Journal